The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports today (May 17th) that some south Florida Ob-gyns are refusing to see obese patients. The reported reasons are 1) exam tables and other equipment are not adequate and 2) the obese patients are riskier patients.
While it is not unusual for Ob-gyns to refer women to medical center specialists when they may have troubled pregnancies or deliveries, this seems a bit preemptive, although not technically discriminatory.
Limiting care for obese patients is not unknown, for example, some orthopaedic surgeons will not do knee replacements on morbidly obese patients due to a higher probability of surgical complications and a higher probability of joint failure. Obese patients may fail the protocols for elective surgery or safe anesthesia.
Obesity as a medical problem and as a medical treatment issue keeps....must I say it, .....growing. Rapidly. With difficult consequences. More to follow.
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