The Anonymous Widower

Lose Weight Or You Don’t Get the Operation

There has been a piece on the BBC about how doctors in Hertfordshire are saying overweight patients should lose weight before operations. Here’a more from an article in the St. Albans Review.

Overweight patients have been told to shift excess pounds before they are allowed operations such as hip and knee replacement, tonsil removal or gall bladder surgery.

It is hoped the new policy will result in patients being in a better state to recover following non-urgent procedures.

One doctor has recently told me, that obesity will bankrupt the NHS.

So I am all in favour of the policy of the doctors in Hertfordshire being replicated elsewhere.

January 10, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Health, News | Obesity