another fatty healthcare story I'll start off with "holy fucking shit"....  I've seen the most disgusting monstrosity freak show in my 15 years of radiology last night.   I hear a call over the ER speaker, "we need all available lifting help to the ambulance entrance".  Fuck that im thinking- but i gotta see what this is about.    They bring in this thing that weighs 860 POUNDS.   I work at a major medical/trauma center and  there's only 1 bed in the entire hospital that can host it and it looks like a jacuzzi on wheels.  and why is it here???: "Difficulty breathing" The MD calls for a portable chest x-ray and we crank that thing up as far as it can go.  you know what it shows? NOTHING.  Fucking nothing!    its so fat it actually blocks all radiation from passing through it.  so we hit it 3 times in a row for a chest x-ray @ 120 Kvp @ 32 mAs...  thats the amount of power it takes to light up 382 one-hundred watt light bulbs for 2 seconds- 3 times in a row.  even after that all you saw was two little black blobs that i guess were lungs. wanna know how disgusting 860 pounds is?? extend your leg out in front of you and its gut went out to where your big toe is.