{"id":194,"date":"2023-04-05T19:40:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/?p=194"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:16:10","slug":"surgery-restricted-for-overweight-patients-and-smokers-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/2023\/04\/05\/surgery-restricted-for-overweight-patients-and-smokers-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgery restricted for overweight patients and smokers in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-194\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-194-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-194-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-194-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/obese_smoker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>Recent policy changes in England (where \u201cfree\u201d health care is controlled by the government) have raised an interesting controversy.\u00a0 Realizing that obesity and smoking are related to increased risk of complications and costs related to some surgeries, there is now a new policy that bans surgery for these patients.\u00a0 Should their government do this to decrease complications \/ decrease costs?\u00a0 Is it the best thing for patients?\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/17\/nhs-provokes-fury-indefinite-surgery-ban-smokers-obese\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/17\/nhs-provokes-fury-indefinite-surgery-ban-smokers-obese\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent policy changes in England (where \u201cfree\u201d health care is controlled by the government) have raised an interesting controversy.\u00a0 Realizing that obesity and smoking are related to increased risk of complications and costs related to some surgeries, there is now a new policy that bans surgery for these patients.\u00a0 Should their government do this to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}