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Originally posted by dickieducati
i really am going off on a tangent here but i think you should be able to, and i think we are going that way. is it suffolk health authority who are now not giving hip and knee replacements to fat people? |
No, like every other health authority they treat people on the basis of clinical need. What they do is to ask fat people to try losing weight before their operation and defer their operation to give them chance to lose the required weight. They do this for very good reasons.
Surgery is far less complex and the outcome is likely to be much more successful
Recovery and rehabilitation is much quicker because people are fitter and don't need to put as much weight on new joints
The long term viability of the replacement joint is much improved
So, if the fat people lose weight before their op, by definition they're not as fat as the threshold weight.
If someone really needed the op and couldn't lose weight they'd still have the op