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10/18/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

U.K. health care system may deny surgery to smokers and the obese

A new plan by the Hertfordshire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) of the U.K.’s national health care system, the NHS, will deny surgery to patients who are obese and those who smoke. Not surprisingly, the news is being met with some heated debate on the part of patients as well as doctors. The new plan would […]

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