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Re:Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't ... by adrr on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:23PM (#12583169)
Article doesn't mention who pays for the increased cost to serve the morbidly obese. Replacing all the MRIs, Xray machines etc would be very expensive. Also added malpractice insurance as morbidly obese have more complications especially when it comes to anesthesiology as dosing is extremely hard to to get correct.
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Re:Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't ... by dragonwriter on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:04PM (#12583534)
Reducing the malpractice currently occurring in the treatment of the morbidly obese should reduce the needed malpractice insurance. (The problem may be that the malpractice that the article documents isn't being prosecuted sufficiently by its victims; if it was, the behavior would probably change.)
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