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If someone needs to go to the doctor to find out if they are fat
They must live very sheltered lives.
I have been asked by a fat man if he is fat He knows well enough, But i can remember countless times when a woman has asked do I look big in this dress?
if I was being unkind id be tempted to say No bigger than in anything else
I know some people can have a distorted view but a tape measure and scales will generally tell the truth
Does my bum look big in this? Well, erm... GPs paid extra to tell patients they are fat
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 10:32 AM on 23rd May 2011
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Doctors will earn extra cash for telling patients they are fat –in a bid to save the NHS money.
From next year GPs will receive a bonus for every clinically obese patient they advise to lose weight –on top of money for keeping a “fat list” of overweight people in their surgeries.
Critics blasted the plans claiming doctors will get richer from simply telling obese patients the obvious.
Cash for flab...Under planned changes to the NHS doctors will get money for telling fat patients they need to lose weight
The plans, revealed in the Sunday Telegraph, are part of a campaign to reverse the climbing rate of obesity in Britain which experts predict could threaten to overwhelm the NHS.
Doctors have seen a huge increase in the number of overweight patients requesting gastric band surgery or stomach stapling,
Under a national payment scheme for all family doctors GPs will be able to boost their income if they give ‘weight management advice’.
They will also receive a bonus if they offer the patient a free place on a private diet club –which the NHS will pay for.
Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, told the Sunday Telegraph he was horrified.
He added: ‘I think it is an appalling idea that GPs need to be paid extra to do this and even worse that they can get the same reward just for telling a patient to lose weight.’
Final details of next year’s GP payment scheme will be agreed between NHS negotiators and the British Medical Association.
Experts predict more than half of adults and a quarter of children will be clinically obese by 2040, which threatens to overwhelm the NHS.
The number of admissions to hospitals for obesity has risen tenfold in the last decade.
Explore more:
Organisations: British Medical Association
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1389672/Does-bum-look-big-GPs-paid-extra-tell-patients-fat.html#ixzz1NAdjeUkH
They must live very sheltered lives.
I have been asked by a fat man if he is fat He knows well enough, But i can remember countless times when a woman has asked do I look big in this dress?
if I was being unkind id be tempted to say No bigger than in anything else
I know some people can have a distorted view but a tape measure and scales will generally tell the truth
Does my bum look big in this? Well, erm... GPs paid extra to tell patients they are fat
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 10:32 AM on 23rd May 2011
Comments (55)
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Doctors will earn extra cash for telling patients they are fat –in a bid to save the NHS money.
From next year GPs will receive a bonus for every clinically obese patient they advise to lose weight –on top of money for keeping a “fat list” of overweight people in their surgeries.
Critics blasted the plans claiming doctors will get richer from simply telling obese patients the obvious.
Cash for flab...Under planned changes to the NHS doctors will get money for telling fat patients they need to lose weight
The plans, revealed in the Sunday Telegraph, are part of a campaign to reverse the climbing rate of obesity in Britain which experts predict could threaten to overwhelm the NHS.
Doctors have seen a huge increase in the number of overweight patients requesting gastric band surgery or stomach stapling,
Under a national payment scheme for all family doctors GPs will be able to boost their income if they give ‘weight management advice’.
They will also receive a bonus if they offer the patient a free place on a private diet club –which the NHS will pay for.
Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, told the Sunday Telegraph he was horrified.
He added: ‘I think it is an appalling idea that GPs need to be paid extra to do this and even worse that they can get the same reward just for telling a patient to lose weight.’
Final details of next year’s GP payment scheme will be agreed between NHS negotiators and the British Medical Association.
Experts predict more than half of adults and a quarter of children will be clinically obese by 2040, which threatens to overwhelm the NHS.
The number of admissions to hospitals for obesity has risen tenfold in the last decade.
Explore more:
Organisations: British Medical Association
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1389672/Does-bum-look-big-GPs-paid-extra-tell-patients-fat.html#ixzz1NAdjeUkH
He's into driving very expensive cars. so likes the extra wonga
I bet he'll corner the fat patient market