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Obesity in EMS

Obesity has become a modern-day blight and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics are not immune.
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Selena Vela, bariatric/general surgery physician’s assistant, examines a pre-operation bariatric patient at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

COVID-19 Reveals How Obesity Harms the Body in Real Time, Not Just Over a Lifetime

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the obesity epidemic once again into the spotlight, revealing that obesity is no longer a disease that harms just in…
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