{"id":3719,"date":"2003-09-25T04:41:37","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T04:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/even-more-ranti\/"},"modified":"2003-09-25T04:41:37","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T04:41:37","slug":"even-more-ranti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/even-more-ranti\/","title":{"rendered":"Even more ranting on Morbid Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DB's Medical Rants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medrants.com\/\">DB&#8217;s Medical Rants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a really good friend who is morbidly obese and desperately wants weight loss surgery.<\/p>\n<p>She hasn&#8217;t been able to get it.  <\/p>\n<p>She needs a new knee joint too but the surgeon won&#8217;t touch it because she&#8217;s too overweight.<\/p>\n<p>She can&#8217;t exercise because she has too much knee pain.  <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s in this huge catch 20\/20 situation because of insurance and because of the doctors.<\/p>\n<p>I worry about her a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what should be done for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DB&#8217;s Medical Rants I&#8217;ve got a really good friend who is morbidly obese and desperately wants weight loss surgery. She hasn&#8217;t been able to get it. She needs a new knee joint too but the surgeon won&#8217;t touch it because she&#8217;s too overweight. She can&#8217;t exercise because she has too much knee pain. She&#8217;s in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}