UK fat patients claim discrimination
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_he_me/britain_fat_patients"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071116/capt.44aeb762539642fb89b50e6276e3372f.britain_fat_patients_malta__mal103.jpg?x=110&y=130&sig=.na7zhcylRPfbe_Xg4FHtQ--" align="left" height="130" width="110" alt="Frances Kinley-Manton poses for a picture at the Hotel Fortina in Sliema, Malta, overlooking the Valletta skyline in the background, Thursday Nov. 8, 2007. For two years, Frances Kinley-Manton lived in chronic pain. She was confined to a wheelchair and desperately needed a hip replacement. But according to her doctor at Britain's National Health Service, she was too fat to be treated. (AP Photo/ Lino Azzopardi)" border="0" /></a>AP - For two years, Frances Kinley-Manton says she lived with arthritis pain in her hips, a condition that kept her in a wheelchair. She wanted hip replacement surgery. But doctors at Britain's National Health Service said she was too fat for the operation. "They wouldn't even put me on a waiting list," Kinley-Manton recalled.</p><br clear="all"/>

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