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'An ongoing nightmare': Obese face major obstacles when seeking medical care


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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With limited vaccines at Florida hospitals, those with underlying conditions out of options


With limited vaccines at Florida hospitals, those with underlying conditions out of options
Samantha J. Gross, The Miami Herald
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A nurse with the COVID-19 unit, holds the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Broward Health Imperial Point in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on December 23, 2020.
MIAMI — Matthew Smith s favorite mask in his colorful collection of COVID-19 face coverings is the forest green Baptist Health-branded one he received in a Christmas stocking from his adult day program.
Smith, 31, was preparing to wear his green mask when he gets his vaccine at Baptist on Feb. 2. Baptist was the only hospital in South Florida taking appointments for those with underlying health conditions, including Down syndrome. His sister, Rosemary Smith Hoel, snagged him a spot after an hour of refreshing the hospital system s online portal to grab an appointment the moment one became available. ....

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