I am specifically speaking of obesity of which we make all kinds of excuses for.
And when I say you, I don’t mean you specifically
@Gern Blansten directly I mean the American mentality of never taking responsibility and blaming everyone else. Which is the reason that malpractice is ridiculous in some states and capped in others. The American view is that someone else is to blame and if there is a bad outcome it’s someone else’s fault and they have to pay. You can change so many things for yourself as an adult. The internet is at your fingertips especially if you are of moderate means. You can learn to cook. You can learn about healthy diets. And quite frankly, junk food is more expensive than healthy food when you cook at home. Maybe not at restaurants.
I come from a third world country and I have never seen an old person get a knee replacement. Sure they have arthritis and some pain but they still get up and walk daily with with their canes. I am speaking of people in their eighties here. American mentality is all about there can never be any pain, any stress and there are drugs and surgeries to fix all that. Bad mentality.
Life has some bumps and pains in its journey.
What’s the percentage of obese patients you take for knee replacement versus thin patients? Let’s be real and honest here.
Ever wonder why they aren’t prescribing narcotics for appys and choles and taking patients to the OR for warts and moles overseas? Even in other first world countries?
Why do I have patients smoking and having MIs and crying about it? It’s a choice.
There is a very entitled mentality in this country.
So again, please tell me how obesity is not our own construct as life has become “easier” and more “convenient”
I am listening.
