Timeline for Are obese patients in the US commonly sent to zoos for CT scans?
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| Jan 5, 2019 at 4:57 | comment | added | Byte11 | @JavaScriptCoder My dad is a cardiologist at on of the area's largest hospitals in midwestern America. He had to constantly refer people to the zoo to get CT scans. It got so bad that the hospital bought an elephant catscanner for the hospital. It's not rare. | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | user43346 | @Fizz No, patients most definitely are not taken to the zoo. If a physician takes on a patient that's too obese for a scanner, the physician will resort to exercising their clinical skills, and assess the patient through a physical exam. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 10:39 | comment | added | jjack | @Thomas In 2008, two zoos which responded to a limited inquiry had CT scanners, but no MRIs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1038/oby.2008.410/full. Since the question asks specifically about CT, your assumption that this story is false is false. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | Thomas Steinke | How many zoos actually have an MRI scanner? They are expensive and probably not essential for the level of care a zoo needs to provide. I would not be surprised if this story is false, simply because zoos don't have MRI machines. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 22:13 | comment | added | Byte11 | Yea, my dad is a doctor and he did it all the time. Eventually it got so bad that the hospital had to buy a zoo CT scanner. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 22:00 | comment | added | jjack | @JamesKPolk Obese people don't only get sick, they want to fly with airlines too. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 21:12 | comment | added | President James K. Polk | What's the reputation of the Daily Mail? Would gross exaggeration or outright fabrication be unprecedented? | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 20:24 | comment | added | jjack | @Voo I'm sorry. I'm not trying to infringe on you for your injury. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 20:21 | comment | added | Voo | @jjack I mean having too large a volume to fit into the tube, nothing to do with the predicament they're trying to analyse. I had a MRI thanks to a torn anterior cruciate ligament. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 20:19 | comment | added | jjack | @Voo If you're just bloated you have a different medical condition which might not require you to get an MRI. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 20:03 | comment | added | Voo | @JavaScriptCoder From my own experience the diameter of MRI tubes at least in Europe is pretty small. I could easily see someone that's not even that heavy but just.. bloated to have a hard time fitting, particularly since you also need some spare space for good imagery I'd expect. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | David Richerby | Yes, "America" means the USA. This is completely standard usage of English. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 16:51 | comment | added | Don Branson |
@Damon - Especially if you've ever read Poe's The Premature Burial.
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| Dec 26, 2017 at 14:19 | comment | added | Richard | @jjack - scrubs.wikia.com/wiki/My_New_Suit | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 14:13 | comment | added | Damon | I wouldn't know if it is common place, but being not obese and having undergone MR (which is kinda the same space-wise) recently, and from what disturbing amounts of obesity I've seen in the US, I can imagine this being very well not far from truth. You know, even when you're not obese, you gotta be a really tough one in order not to get a claustrophobic fit in one of these things... | |
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| Dec 26, 2017 at 13:46 | comment | added | jjack | @Richard What happened there? | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 11:44 | comment | added | Richard | This happened in House M.D. and Scrubs. That almost certainly contributed to the idea that it's commonplace. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 7:34 | comment | added | jjack | @JavaScriptCoder The very obese people are usually at home because they don't move around easily anymore. Which is why you can't see them in the public. Unless there is something that bothers them which makes them consult the EMS or a doctor. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 4:20 | answer | added | Oddthinking♦ | timeline score: 63 | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 2:16 | comment | added | JSCoder says Reinstate Monica | "The practice of referring patients to zoos is commonplace in America where obesity has reached epidemic levels." Wow, I live in America and I usually don't see many people that obese. I think its true they may have referred extremely obese people to the zoo, but that is a small fraction of the total population. Exaggerations probably make pretty good clickbait. | |
| Dec 25, 2017 at 21:59 | answer | added | ventsyv | timeline score: 10 | |
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