It Was Never About Health

Bariatric surgeries are being pushed on patients at a major New York hospital; the health outcomes are shocking, but not, in the end, surprising.

Content warning for fatphobia, medical trauma, and death.

One patient, Jasmine Nieves, 30, wound up in agony after her surgery; when she called for help repeatedly, nobody at the clinic answered. A month later, she passed out on a couch, and her sister called an ambulance. A CT scan revealed fluid pooling in her abdomen. She required emergency surgery, …