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[loracs]

Of reasons why fat people are bankrupting the health care system this would be my #1 
(drum roll please)

You have to use needles twice as long when delivering medicine to fat people's muscles!

Okay, the news report didn't say fat folks are putting an undue burden on the health care system because of this, but they certainly implied that our increasing zaftig population has . . . consequences!

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[firecat]

The article I read (or at least the part of the article I bothered to read, before quitting in disgust) didn't even mention that longer needles were a possibility. The implication was that needles have been Decreed to be a particular length from now until the end of time, and if people got too fat for the needle, then they clearly couldn't be treated.

Reminiscent of airlines, eh? "People have gotten too big to fit into the seats." As if the seats just spring fully formed and exactly 16.5 inches wide from the head of Zeus.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me they make loooonnngger needles. Just ask stonebender about the time I informed the doctor that if they wanted to get to his muscles with the med then they needed a longer needle because what looks like muscle in his thighs is actually fat and the muscle lies much deeper! He will be forever grateful to me (NOT) for that tidbit.

[tracytreefrog.livejournal.com]

I was chatting with a co worker just last night about doctors and tests etc. and he actually said" how do they take your blood pressure?" As if it wasn't possible with the big upper arm I have sheesh!