adipose - No reason to deny knee replacements for obese patients

This is about being fat and being a fat activist. It's about people being treated with respect. It's about explaining to the world that labeling all fat people as unhealthy makes as much sense as labeling all thin people as anorexic.

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No reason to deny knee replacements for obese patients I don’t understand how anyone could deny an obese patient a surgery that could increase their mobility. It’s as if once a person is fat, everyone throws their hands up and says, “Sorry, you’re fat and you deserve to endure torturous pain until you die, which will, of course, be soon because you’re fat.”