I'm still downloading the full report from Foresight at an astonishing (1Kb/s) Should just about be finished by tonight. Who would have thought that the NHS had a crap network? Maybe anyone who has waited sixty seconds for an ETP prescription to start downloading. In that length of time I could have labelled and dispensed it the old-fashioned way! Anyway, this has been reported at the BBC website here.
Okay, so we may live in an obesogenic society, but that does not mean we can abrogate all responsibility. If you sit on your arse all day, watching Jeremy Kyle and eating sausage rolls from Greggs, then you will be fat. That's just a basic thermodynamic law. How can that be the fault of anyone but you? Do imaginary friends drag you into bakers, or is that just me?
It seems again that everything is the fault of someone else. All of us who work in a pharmacy must have seen this. Smokers who blame their inability to give up smoking on "the Zyban did not work." Instead of taking responsibility for their having the will power of a piece of toast it is somehow my fault for this failure. Last week I had a patient who collected a prescription for Xenical, and then said "Come on kid's, let's go to McDonalds." Hmm, just think of that anal leakage, nice!
So, all you 30+ BMI people, think yourself lucky. It isn't down to you to live your life sensibly, eat a sensible diet and maybe move your legs every now and again to burn off some Calories. It's everybody else's fault. You can probably sue somebody for being as fat as you are. You are an alcoholic because "it's a disease", ditto with your drug misuse. Never take responsibility, and say goodbye to your willpower that you have not really used since you were fifteen.
Then again, Obese, Type II diabetics generate a huge amount of my monthly business. Aspirin, a statin, some Metformin, a Glitazone, an ACE-I, an A-II antagonist. All for free courtesy of our wonderful NHS. Do you think more sports injuries, from excessive exercise, woud generate more business than that we would lose from having fewer diabetic patients? Er, no!
Many thanks to my assistant for posing for the above photograph, especially for Pharmacy God.
7 comments:
Dude,
If you're going to put up images of almost nude people, please put the tanning bed chick back up.
My eyeballs are hurting now.
PG
Sorry PG. When you said boobs you did not mean "man boobs" right?
Your assistant! Is that the best assistant you have!!! If so, i feel very sorry for you. Don't you have cute assistants where you work?
Indeed I do anonymous, this is my afternoon girl. My other assistants are not fat and would be poor examples.
haha wow, living in a state that has a major problem with obesity I can so relate to this article..not that I am obese. I remember customers coming up to me when I worked at subway constantly complaining about how fast food restaurants are making them fat and telling me (with a proud grin on their face) that they are switching to eating subway...and this whole time I watch as they keep asking me to add more and more mayo to their sandwhich...
That guy looks like he might actually have CAH.... check out the striae for goodness sakes. In which case the obesity actually wouldn't be his fault. Ironic, no?
To prevent the development of serious complications, more than 21 million individuals with Type 1 diabetes primarily children and young adults must receive as a number of as three injections of insulin each day.........
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