For the 2nd time today I've dealt with a patient who is described as being having morbid obesity.
I've never really understood that expression. I mean, apart from the odd few (and there are special sites for that sort of interest), most people would be a bit morbid about being obese wouldn't they? I can't imagine many people would be happy about being enormous, and going round singing & dancing "Whay hey, I'm a fat 'un I am..."). You don't describe patients as having happy fatness.
(Yes, sqad, I know what morbid means in the 'medical' sense, I've just always found it strange terminology. It's one of my word 'things').
Oh Lordy, I've just read that back to myself. I've posted some stupid almost intelligible questions in the past, but none quite so daft as that one..... ;-(
Sorry peeps.
but then again - it might well lead to an interesting semi-related discussion?
I sing it in a Georgie accent "Waay aay man, I'm a fat 'un and I don't care..." when eating those cheap pink tinned hot dogs dripping with onions and red sauce....
I know that's the medical definition or terminology Ankou - but I've always associated the word 'morbid' with someone a bit Gothic in temperament - unhappy etc. Like I said, it's a word thing combined with the strange workings of my mind ..... !