Something for you to ponder....

...if you have any energy left after Colm's...most challenging CHALLENGE!!!! Trying to keep updated with it but....so busy right now....honey time for me peps...I keep bees and this year has been exceptionally good to me!

This snippet caught my eye today...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/02/07/17/35/morbidly-obese-man-sues-his-doctor

I would like your thoughts on this...if you have some? My first reaction was....how did this person become obese in the first place? Shouldn't we all be responsible for our own health? Everyone knows about these stomach bandings so....why didn't he ask for one if it wasn't offered to him....yeah...etc etc...would love your thoughts...if you have any time/energy left :)

Wow. I think this is ridiculous to be honest...

Sue my doctor because he didnt recommend I get lap band surgery? Give me a break....The article says so little..I highly doubt that doctor saw that man for a check up and never recommended ANYTHING...Why didn't the article state other options the doctor recommended because I know for a fact the first thing docs tell obese people is to lose weight, you need to change your diet and do some small form of exercise...

I think doctors can only do so much. Those surgeries are optional, not required. I have an obese cousin, she doesnt exercise, she doesnt change her diet, she doesn't do anything...will she eventually kill herself? You never know, she could...but has her doctor recommended numbers of way for her to lose weight? YES! ...

People don't want to take responsibility for their choices. Gaining weight (unless due to a medical reason) is usually by choice....People eat terrible things for them, people drink too much...Parents dont watch what they feed their children... I mean your overweight because you dont do anything about it......so to sue your doctor because YOUR CHOICE finally caught up to you...seems ridiculous to me.

I feel bad he is dieing, my heart will always ache for anyone going through that, but people don't realize how serious health is...I just watched my great uncle die the other day of colun cancer because he refused to get colunoscopys done....My dad right now has been told he is 2 steps away from esophogus (sp?) cancer...has he completely quit smoking? nope...... Have both of their doctors recommended things? Yes...

I think people will do anything to get money, and most of them do things like this....not take responsibility for their actions and blame other people. It sickens me.....take care of yourself. You cant expect your doctor to lose weight for you.

It is my job to help people loose weight and during the years I have been doing this, I found out they often know very little about healthy food and / or the importance of daily exercise. Not all groups in society as as well informed as you would prefer them to be and / or able to truly understand the importance of guidelines that they do pick up on by authorities involved.

I once helped a client overseas improving his diet and found out he ate little to no fruit and only one kind of veggies!

So I do see the point this patient is trying to make..he may not have been aware of the risks involved in being as obese as he was. The gp knew very well he was looking at a time bomb.

There is way more reason to obesity than just merely "they choose to be overweight". Sometimes yes people are as informed as they wish to be, they get stuck in a vicious circle of over eating, they have emotional, social problems and I have to say that sometimes it is way cheaper to eat bad and that is sad. I would have to have more background information on the story to decide if I agree with the judgement here.

I don't know about everywhere else but here in Canada you can actually get gastric bypass covered under healthcare and I know so many people w ho have done it. What I find disturbing is how much work goes into preparing for it. Diets exercise, you are expected to lose so much weight before the surgery and after. If you can do all of that to have a risky surgery, why not just continue it and leave out the surgery. I can see when someone has like 200 lbs or more to lose or something huge like that, but most of the people I know were maybe 100 lbs overweight, I lost 85 just depriving myself of my bad habits I have built up over my life. Everyone is always looking for a quick fix, but there are none, it is changing ourselves and our environment and that is a long hard fight.