Ok, I’ll bow to your greater knowledge. However, a doctor stating a patient must lost x pounds before surgery does not take into account the fact that some people have been fat all their adult lives and will massively struggle to do what they ask. Labelling the, as “non-compliant” isn’t very fair.

Also if we believe the news many countries have a population that’s increasing in size so surely hospitals and doctors need to be prepared to adapt to this?