Last year I ended up in the ER with an obstructed bowel. Before they figured out what the problem was, they had to run a bunch of tests on me, and I had to have an x-ray taken of my abdomen. I had to have one laying on a table and one standing. The tech was extremely friendly and she said the machine was a little screwy so she had to redo the standing one a couple of times, but she said it was so much easier with tiny people like me because it usually takes a ton of tries with fat people to get the proper image. Oh yeah, and after the x-rays were done and she was wheeling me back out to the room I was in before, we passed a desk where all the EMT's were hanging around; they were all fat. LOL. But my nurse, the tech, and the Dr. who treated me were all thin and super nice to me, and it really hit me how much harder their jobs are when they have to deal with fat people. The nurse had to feel around my abdomen, she had to draw blood, give me injections. All of those things would have been a million times harder if I had layers of fat covering me. I feel really bad for them.