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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
If people don't care enough about their weight, then why should medical experts spend their time building machines to accomodate people's bad habits?
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That's like saying "Hey, some people smoke, how about we not give them treatment for lung cancer.
Here's my opinion. To start off with, I'm a pretty big guy. Being overweight and going to a doctor, they pretty much always mention weight loss. It's not like something a doctor ignores, they always try to convince you to lose weight and try to help with that. Saying the doctors are just there to keep people fat to make money is ludicrous. If you really believe that, you don't look around enough to notice diabetes advertisements telling you how to prevent it, same with other issues.
Should they build larger x-rays/scanners for larger people? Yes. Saying that ill people don't deserve medical attention because they're overweight is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. "Broke your leg? Well, we won't know for sure until you go jog some laps and lose some weight."
"Lung cancer? Well, take some deep breaths, do a little yoga, and come back to us in 6 months and we'll see if you've lost some weight so we can help you out"
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Originally Posted by Destrox
What happens when you make a MRI tube bigger? The diameter increases.
What happens to those of us who are of NORMAL size? We get further away from the actual scanner (In a MRI you are suppose to be a tight tube with little extra space around you.) and this results in a lower quality scan.
What does this mean? Because of the population that cant take care of them selves they are in turn killing (or at least hurting) those of us who do. You know damn well hospitals wont be able to afford to have a normal person MRI and a fat person MRI.
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I think that almost pushes this thread into tilted paranoia... Unless you're a radiologist I don't think you have the understanding to be able to say that "Larger MRI=Dead Normal people" As much as you can choose not to trust the government and the FDA I don't actually believe that they would put out a machine that did not work for the general population in addition to the overweight population.