mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

Impossible! Farkers have repeatedly told us only Americans are fat.

Wait, I thought the United States had a monopoly on morbid obesity.

Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

God forbid they put the GOTdamm fork down. 500lbs isn't 'in the genes' or 'being big-boned'. it's being weak.

Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

As a fat hog I expect nothing less than total humiliation if I am in fact too large for the scanner. What would be the compassionate and dignified path in this case? Buy a new CT, a new wing for the hospital to put it in, and bill Obamacare? How about the doctor tell them to lose some weight or die trying?

These people can cry me a river of rich creamery drawn butter.

I'm sitting here counting my points this morning on weight watchers so I'm getting a kick out of these replies

\just getting too damn fat

FTA: CT scans are used by doctors to assess body fat as well as for more general health checks to see if anything is wrong.

Whuh? I thought you just used a tape measure and a scale?

And would a CT scan even be useful on soft tissue? (IANA Doctor, but TV told me that's what MRI was for.)

Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

There comes a point where logistics and practicality trump compassion.

Chthonic Echoes: Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

There comes a point where logistics and practicality trump compassion.

That would imply common sense exists

thalidomide new and improved: Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

God forbid they put the GOTdamm fork down. 500lbs isn't 'in the genes' or 'being big-boned'. it's being weak.

Next we can humiliate the sedentary, alcoholics, drug addicts, smokers, those with extreme sports injuries, those with VD, pregnant teens, and anyone else who has made bad and/or unfortunate choices in their life.

America is not trying as hard anymore.

"Scrubs" did it.

Chthonic Echoes: Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

There comes a point where logistics and practicality trump compassion.

I disagree, but that's okay. We can respectfully agree to disagree. Nothing wrong with that.

/not going to argue his point anymore. Said what I said and I'm sticking to it.
//waiting for someone to post the 'Welcome to FARK' pic.

dv-ous: FTA: CT scans are used by doctors to assess body fat as well as for more general health checks to see if anything is wrong.

Whuh? I thought you just used a tape measure and a scale?

And would a CT scan even be useful on soft tissue? (IANA Doctor, but TV told me that's what MRI was for.)

I think the tank is still the best way to measure body fat. Damn site cheaper than a CT scan, too.

LOL they did this on Scrubs.

Herbert knows how that feels.

You know when the doctors say you need to visit a zoo to get a CT scan that usually is for large animals, then perhaps its time to stop being a lard ass.

Espertron: God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances circumferences)!

FTFY

Does the scanner have a "Please do not feed" sign?

Once again Canada can't even make it in the top ten. For shame, Canada, for shame.

lobotomy survivor: Does the scanner have a "Please do not feed" sign?

No, it has a "Please do not eat" sign

In other news, they apparently have CT scanners for horses

Espertron: thalidomide new and improved: Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

God forbid they put the GOTdamm fork down. 500lbs isn't 'in the genes' or 'being big-boned'. it's being weak.

Next we can humiliate the sedentary, alcoholics, drug addicts, smokers, those with extreme sports injuries, those with VD, pregnant teens, and anyone else who has made bad and/or unfortunate choices in their life.

OF course not. Because they can still use the same equipment everyone else uses. You can still be examined by a ultrasound, you just can't fit into something with a predetermined amount of space. Such as, say, a CT scan. You see, physics does not allow you to pass through "solid" (in reality, matter is full of empty space, but i digress) matter, and when you hit the framework of the machine, the "solid matter" does not allow you to progress any further. Now, as a result, you are not able to reach the scanning equipment inside of the machine itself.

Feel_the_velvet: In other news, they apparently have CT scanners for horses

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Either that or it's Mr. Hand's Love Chair...

Feel_the_velvet: In other news, they apparently have CT scanners for horses

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Sure some Beastiality guy is thinking "hmm I need one of those to hold em sheep down"

I thought this was a busted myth, zoos have no bigger machines then human hospitals. Looks like they just got a bigger table, but the machine is the same for the example in the article.

Well, we use the hospital scanners on pigs (for research) during the night, so I really don't see the difference.

Espertron: thalidomide new and improved: Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

God forbid they put the GOTdamm fork down. 500lbs isn't 'in the genes' or 'being big-boned'. it's being weak.

Next we can humiliate the sedentary, alcoholics, drug addicts, smokers, those with extreme sports injuries, those with VD, pregnant teens, and anyone else who has made bad and/or unfortunate choices in their life.

I am ok with that. There should be a priority list for mockery though. Something like:

1) The Obese
2) Crack heads
3) alcoholics
4) Everyone else.

Lars The Canadian Viking: I thought this was a busted myth, zoos have no bigger machines then human hospitals. Looks like they just got a bigger table, but the machine is the same for the example in the article.

According to American College of Radiology (new window) It is not.

Espertron: Next we can humiliate the sedentary, alcoholics, drug addicts, smokers, those with extreme sports injuries, those with VD, pregnant teens, and anyone else who has made bad and/or unfortunate choices in their life.

I didn't know they also require the use of non-human medical devices.

I'm having a CT scan done on Monday...

Thank heavens I'm not massively obese! My nearest zoos are Chester Zoo and Blackpool zoo!
(No, even if I was massive, I wouldn't appreciate the day out - imagine the 'wide load' stickers the ambulance would need and the police escort...)

Hell, I'm not even close to being obese!

I am ok with this. Being simply fat won't stop you from fitting in a ct scanner. By the time you're to big there isn't really a valid excuse.

dv-ous: FTA: CT scans are used by doctors to assess body fat as well as for more general health checks to see if anything is wrong.

Whuh? I thought you just used a tape measure and a scale?

And would a CT scan even be useful on soft tissue? (IANA Doctor, but TV told me that's what MRI was for.)

You can see fat on both. An MRI is used for soft tissue, but fat just shows up as a white mass on it. MRI will give you details on soft tissue a CT will not, but when it comes to fat detail doesn't matter.

Besides, most MRI machines have a 300 pound weight limit and a smallish opening.

But have they tried rubbing them down with KY Jelly?

There is nothing new about this. Zoo CT scanners have been used to scan obese humans for decades.

Disgusting fatbody.

/dnrtfa

Lars The Canadian Viking: I thought this was a busted myth, zoos have no bigger machines then human hospitals. Looks like they just got a bigger table, but the machine is the same for the example in the article.

You might be thinking of MRI machines, which usually have the same size opening at both hospitals and zoos.

Espertron: thalidomide new and improved: Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)!

God forbid they put the GOTdamm fork down. 500lbs isn't 'in the genes' or 'being big-boned'. it's being weak.

Next we can humiliate the sedentary, alcoholics, drug addicts, smokers, those with extreme sports injuries, those with VD, pregnant teens, and anyone else who has made bad and/or unfortunate choices in their life.

That's not a bad thing. Bring back shame and get rid of the 'everything's ok' mentality.

simrobert2001: Lars The Canadian Viking: I thought this was a busted myth, zoos have no bigger machines then human hospitals. Looks like they just got a bigger table, but the machine is the same for the example in the article.

According to American College of Radiology (new window) It is not.

LOL Maybe you should read the article you link to before trying to use it to invalidate an argument.

FTA: "Fed up, on July 18, Pond sent an open letter addressed to the nation's "radiographers and their instructors." His message? Jumbo-sized zoo scanners are an urban legend.

"Very few zoos own a CT machine - only one of which is known to me - and none own MRIs," Pond says. "And that one zoo, along with veterinary specialty practices that do have this larger equipment, obtained them from the human side. Zoos do not have any special imaging equipment for large animals that is not already available in the human field."

So yes, it is a myth.


Also:

Espertron: mauricecano: Well if you eat like a horse you should be scanned like a horse!

God forbid we actually show compassion and dignity to our patients (regardless of their personal circumstances)! find the problem

FTFY

Shoulda shown it scanning a cow. My brother-in-law weighs over 370, is a cop, and is going in for surgery again, yet won't stop eating fast food. . Always colon-type issues. I asked my wife when they where gonna pull the branch out of his arse.

I was obese, fixed it, and I don't have those issues.

/Not 370 thought.
//That's just gross.

Lets just take them out back and shoot them like you would a horse with a broken leg. They aren't really people.