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Doctors Refuse to Treat Overweight Patients

Get better equipment if you must; don’t turn people away.

From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Fifteen obstetrics-gynecology practices out of 105 polled by the Sun Sentinel said they have set weight limits for new patients. Some of the doctors said the main reason was their exam tables or other equipment can’t handle people over a certain weight, but at least six said heavy women run a higher risk of complications.

“People don’t realize the risk we’re taking by taking care of these patients,” the newspaper quoted Dr. Albert Triana of South Miami as saying. “There’s more risk of something going wrong and more risk of getting sued. Everything is more complicated with an obese patient in GYN surgeries and in [pregnancies],” he told the newspaper.

It is not illegal for doctors to refuse overweight patients, but it has medical ethicists worried. So far, the weight cutoffs have been enacted only by South Florida ob-gyns, who have long complained about high numbers of lawsuits after difficult births and high rates for medical-malpractice insurance.”

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3 comments

  1. Steve Place

    Would you want to look down that cavern?

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  2. cronkite

    that’s why i’m no doctor….
    I would only be a plastic surgeon in L.A. if given the opportunity

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    • Jakegint

      You gotta figure even in that job, there’s probably a one to ten hottie to uggo ratio.

      Think about how many saggy lipos you’d be doing. I think the answer is: Just inure yourself to the whole deal, and cash the checks.

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