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I found this article in the Washington Post, Super-size equipment helps D.C. area EMTs move the obese, thanks to a twitter post from Zombar, another post-op dude.
Basically it talks about the increasing need to upgrade and super-size ambulances and other medical equipment to handle the growing trend of a growing girth in the American populace, and as he put it, Thoughts of EMTs dragging me out of the house on a tarp is one of the myriad reasons I chose to have WLS.
I’ve gone back and forth about posting things here on FFD that are just links to other sites, news articles, etc… when I find things of interest, I like to try and summarize how they are relevant to someone looking in to or has had WLS. But, I don’t always have the time to do so… and I figure why not start sharing these things I come across anyways? So… I’m starting up the “newsroom” category to use for when I post links to outside stories.
I have a couple to share real quick, one was posted by someone on twitter this morning and another from someone over on the BTV forums.
Confidence rises in weight loss surgery – at first I thought this was going to be about how the patient confidence rises, but it’s more about how WLS is increasingly becoming accepted as a treatment for morbid obesity.
Weight-Loss Surgery Pays For Itself After 2 Years, Study Shows – This is an older item, from September of 2008, but even then studies were showing how WLS would pay back in spades, not just from a health perspective, but also money wise.
