Quote:
|
Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
I'm not sure where you are getting the idea that doctors have trumped this operation up into an 'industry', most doctors hate performing these types of surgery for the exact reasons people have been posting. Surgery on very overweight people is always complicated and the risks increase enormously even for simple procedures. That being said, the doctor rarely has the power to effectivly block unfit patients who want the surgery and can pay for it (sometimes you can block it through insurance). I can assure you that a doctors worst nightmare is a single-minded, uninformed patient that refuses to believe what they are told and pushes for their prefered treatment. The blame always comes back to the doctor. Both my parents are physicians (father is ER doc, mother is family doc) and I've heard all the senarios.
|
I have seen people who are less than 100lbs overweight get this procedure. People, as I said above, who admitted to me that they would lose the weight if they just ate the post-op diet...
Where I worked before becoming disabled I
knew over six people who had the surgery and knew of at least five more, of them I can say with some certainty three or four were
not cosmetic.
If you can change your diet and lose the weight, you don't need the surgery.
It ain't hard.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by mercy
Obesity causes many dangerous illness. We should be aware of this,
|
This has nothing to do with what we are talking about. It just reinforces the fact that they don't need to be introducing more problems by getting a dangerous procedure that they don't need if they can just become more healthy by changing their diet and habits.
If a Dr. knows that they can lose the weight by doing that and gives them the surgery anyway it is immoral.