article_snippet: There are clearly cases where certain people’s body size may make it difficult to safely do a certain procedure, but cases where certain people’s body size may make it difficult to safely do a certain procedure’re exceptional.
article_snippet: This is a measurement of obesity and above 25 is classified as overweight, over 30 obese and more than 35, morbidly obese.
article_snippet: This is equivalent to a 5ft 6 woman (170 m) weighing just under 13 and a half stone (84 kg).
article_snippet: Dr David Haslam, GP in Watton-in-Stone, Hertfordshire, who is also chair of the National Obesity Forum said: ‘What Dr David Haslam, GP in Watton-in-Stone, Hertfordshire, who is also chair of the National Obesity Forum hate as GPs is blanket bans and you ca
article_snippet: n’t just take BMI (a measure of obesity) as a reason to operate or not operate.
article_snippet: ‘Some restrictions could have a sound clinical basis, Dr David Haslam, GP in Watton-in-Stone, Hertfordshire, who is also chair of the National Obesity Forum said, but it is wrong to turn away patients based on weight and do nothing to help change Some restrictions circumstances.
article_snippet: Weight loss interventions must be offered, otherwise it’s
article_snippet: Dr David Haslam, GP in Watton-in-Stone, Hertfordshire, who is also chair of the National Obesity Forum said.