With regard to the poster whose nurse said that people over 500 lb shouldn't be in their beds; my mother is a nurse and I often hear her complain about this for the simple fact that the beds were not designed to support that much weight and are unsafe. That isn't to say that people aren't entitled to medical equipment that can accommodate their body, of course.

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medusa-gaze

So, why doesn’t your mom complain about the beds, then? There’s something wrong with the beds, not with the people. It isn’t that the people shouldn’t be there, it’s that the hospital should have beds that accommodate the patients they actually get.

When you make the people who aren’t served by the system the problem instead of the system that refuses to serve them, you are reinforcing the idea that the system shouldn’t have to serve everyone.

-MG