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An ongoing nightmare : Obese face major obstacles when seeking medical care
Rich Schapiro
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Laura Baker, a retired special education teacher from Santa Barbara, California, was 18 months into a brain cancer diagnosis when she typed out a distressing Facebook post in the fall of 2019.
“I am currently having some concerning symptoms and nobody seems to know what to do,” Baker, then 57, wrote.
What Baker really needed, she said, was a CT scan of her head. Her local hospital had a working CT scanner, but it wasn’t available to her.
The reason: her size. Even though she was “well under” the scanner machine’s advertised weight limit of 625 pounds, Baker wrote, it still couldn’t handle someone with her frame. ....

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