Radiology Doctor is honest with me when I ask how on earth he handles fat fucks! I posted part of this as a comment on another post but I figured it was worthy of it's own post to show how being fat can affect your medical care! We were at the hospital today for an ultrasound due to an infection in my feeding tube stoma. I use a powered wheelchair and cannot stand at all by myself. The receptionist had obviously called ahead to the Ultrasound department to let them know. The awesome nurse came in to the waiting room to ask if we'd need a hoist to put me on the exam table and when he saw it was me (we've met before in a different department), he was like "Oh! Hey sweetheart! Just came to see if you need the hoist but clearly not! Does your new powered wheelchair recline really well? If it reclines enough then we can scan you in your chair, save your husband lifting you!" He knew instantly that they wouldn't have to wait around and locate a hoist. Even if my chair couldn't recline enough (it does) then my husband is perfectly capable of picking me up and putting me onto the examination table for them. While I was being scanned (they were looking to see if there was an abscess in my bowel, under the skin, that could be feeding the infection around my tube ) the Doctor mentioned that the different scanners had different frequencies. He used a low frequency first so he could look deep and see my bowel and then used a high frequency that just looks at the first few centimetres or so under the skin.  I decided to ask him how he handles fat patients and he diplomatically replied that "It's very hard! We can't really see very deep because there's too much, um... tissue in the way. Basically, what I see with the shallow tissue probe on you (i.e. the first few layers below my skin) is what I see with the deep tissue probe on fat people as it can't penetrate deep enough to actually see their gut!" What this means is that for a fat person in my situation who possibly has an abscess in their abdomen... They would need much more invasive tests to determine it, potentially requiring exploratory surgery instead of a simple scan!! They'd also have to wait a hell of a lot longer just to get an ultrasound scan in the first place as they'd have to find extra staff and a bariatric hoist before they could get them into position for the scan.  Thin privilege is being able to be lifted onto a medical examination table by one person if you need it. Thin privilege is having that medical examination be capable of seeing your internal organs as opposed to just seeing layers of blubber!!