FAT people are Discriminated against at prime

There is no discrimination. Everybody is screened for the risk factors. It starts with BMI. I have to be measured and weighed the same as you. I do not exhibit the primary risk factor in OSA. Therefore, my screening stops there.

If my BMI was high, I would go on to the next step in the screening process: go see the doc, say "Aaaaahh" and have my neck measured. If my neck size and throat opening do not fit risk factors in OSA, my screening would stop there. If they are risk factors, I would go on to do a sleep study.

If my sleep study shows no OSA, then the process stops there. If it does, I get a CPAP and am required to use it.

Point is, EVERYBODY goes through the process of being screened for OSA. It starts with height/weight. Why waste resources on people who do not show the primary risk factor for OSA?

Now. If a slender person takes the little quiz and finds they show signs of OSA, I'm pretty sure Prime would run them through a sleep study if they and the doc request it.

Discrimination? I'm LMAO at that one. File your lawsuit and let us know how it works out for ya.

 

I went through Swifts physical the other week. I am 350 lbs 5' 11". My neck size is 19" I do not have any of the problems like

• Excessive daytime sleepiness (hypersomnia)
• Loud snoring, which is usually more prominent in obstructive sleep apnea
• Observed episodes of breathing cessation during sleep
• Abrupt awakenings accompanied by shortness of breath, which more likely indicates central sleep apnea
• Awakening with a dry mouth or sore throat
• Morning headache
• Difficulty staying asleep (insomnia)

So telling me that I might have to take the test because of my looks is discrimination.

 

So is it discrimination that people with high blood pressure have to get a physical once a year where the rest of us don't? They have to do all tests double as much! Discrimination!

It's hard to say discrimination when it doesn't actually keep you from getting a job.

 

*sigh*

Height/weight are not "looks." They are hard numbers. If you don't want to go through the screening process, just like I did, although mine was stopped early on, then lose some of the weight. Your screening process will stop earlier, too.

It's like immunizations when we were kids. Some of us got shots, others didn't. My brother didn't get a mumps shot. He had mumps when he was a baby. I had to get the shot because I never had mumps. It's no more discrimination to be screened for a mumps shot than for OSA. Should I sue the doctor because I had to go through the pain of a shot?

There are athletes who have to go through the screening process because their BMI places them in the risk factor category. They go see the doc, he measures them and looks in their throats. Some have to go on to the sleep study, most don't. It's not because of how you look. It's because you fit the risk factor category.

If it's such a problem for you, maybe this isn't the right career choice. Regardless, it is not discrimination to run all people, whether muscular or not so muscular, who fall into the same risk category, through the same screening process. It's hard numbers. Not looks.

 

Being overweight is not a handicap unless you have a diagnosed medical condition like thyroid, etc. So I'm sorry, but you're not gonna get sympathy from me. If you feel that your discriminated against, then do something about it. Push away from the table.

 

Well guess what? Both of these guys are right!

It is discrimination!!! Yuppers! You guys win the contest!!!

Unfortunately for both of you... its not illegal for an employer to discriminate in this fashion. So keep up the Bovine Excrement...

...we're gonna have to see if we can out-post the Whar Ar Ya thread with this one!

 

Moral of the thread? Fat people are really defensive.

 

No come from a family where it affects both fat and thin. I am also willing to bet that there is a higher incidence rate than actually exists with these companys. If your sick or having problems go to the doctor, I do not need the goverment telling me when to go! OH and does Prime even have any drivers that they actually pay the insurance for.

 

Thank ya Jer! 96 pages of this thread and the best info so far is at page 97! Those filthy animals at Prime..

To sum up the other 96 pages? If you are a fat ###. You are on your way out of the industry.

That was easy.

 

Yes. They do.