Speaking of Fat People: The National Association to Advance FAT Acceptance(NAAFA).
1. Go to this link.
2. Read everything.
3. Laugh till you cry.
4. Then shake your head at how stupid they are.
Just a preview
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PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH CARE
Attitude
* As a responsible health care professional, you should acknowledge each of your patients as an individual. This is especially true for fat patients, who may avoid health care when they feel they are only perceived as being fat, and that the knee-jerk tre atment for any problem is "lose weight." If they could lose weight, many would have done so by now.
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* As fat people are often not taken seriously by health care providers, please treat them with gentleness, tact and concern. Remember that many fat people have had years of negative experiences with health care providers, and some have been denied treatment, or given inappropriate treatment, because they are fat.
Weighing Patients
* Do not automatically weigh your fat patients, unless there is a compelling reason to do so.
* If weighing is necessary, ensure that it takes place in a private setting, and not in the presence of other patients or staff.
* The fat patient's weight should be recorded silently, free of any commentary.
MEDICAL TREATMENT
Medical Procedures
* Have several sizes of blood pressure cuffs available. Using a small blood pressure cuff on a fat patient can cause false readings.
* Have longer needles and tourniquets available in order to draw blood from your fat patients.
* Your lavatory should have a seat that is split in front, to enable fat patients to more easily hold urine specimen cups in place. A urine specimen collection device with a handle is preferable.
Diagnosing Medical Problems
* Do not automatically assume that the cause of your fat patient's condition is his or her weight.
* Remember to perform the same diagnostic tests on your fat patients as you would on your patients of average size for a suspected condition.
Treating Medical Problems
* Do not insist that your fat patient lose weight prior to receiving treatment for conditions that are not weight related.
* Demonstrate care in ordering medication dosages. Some fat patients react sensitively to small dosages of some drugs, while other drugs require a higher dosage, due to the patient's higher weight.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Waiting Room
* Have several sturdy armless chairs in your waiting room. Chairs with arms often cannot accommodate a fat person.
* There should be six to eight inches of space between chairs.
* Sofas should be firm and high enough to ensure that your fat patients can easily rise. Exceptionally low and soft sofas can be a nightmare for the fat patient.
Examination Room
* Examining tables should be wide, and bolted to the floor or wall, so that the table does not tip forward when your fat patient sits on the end.
* Provide a sturdy stool for fat patients to assist them in getting on the examining table.
* Provide super-large examining gowns for your fat patients.
500 pound rafter rescued!
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(07-17) 12:05 PDT MILWAUKEE (AP) --
A 500-pound man injured while rafting down a shallow stretch of the St. Croix River was pulled to safety Tuesday by dozens of rescue workers who spent hours carrying him to a navigable part of the waterway.
Martin Rike, 39, of Pine City, Minn., was treated at the Burnett Medical Center in Grantsburg 12 hours after authorities first received reports that he had run aground.
Rike was rafting alone Monday afternoon about 70 miles northeast of Minneapolis and some 370 miles northwest of Milwaukee when he experienced an unspecified health problem, said Chief Deputy Steve Ovick of the Pine County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota. Rike left his raft and began walking but tumbled on the slippery, irregular rocks and injured an ankle and knee.
Rike's family called authorities around 8:15 p.m. Monday, concerned that he was overdue, Ovick said.
A helicopter crew spotted him and directed ground rescuers to him, but their boats and canoes got stuck because the river was only 2 inches deep in that area, Ovick said.
Rescuers labored unsuccessfully to reach Rike, first with an all-terrain vehicle and then a hovercraft.
"Every resource we had simply did not work until we got down to physical manpower," Ovick said. "The aircraft that found him said they could not lift that amount of weight."
Eventually authorities managed to load Rike into an aluminum boat.
"There wasn't enough water for it to float, so they physically used that as a stretcher," Ovick said.
Some 40 to 50 rescuers took turns hoisting the boat, carrying it 2 feet at a time until they found a spot in the river deep enough for the boat to float down to a waiting ambulance.
"It was very taxing. It was probably 70 degrees and the humidity was very high last night," Ovick said. "Lifting him, moving 2 feet at a time, you get tired real quick with 600 pounds of cargo."
