Ambulances start charging extra for obese patients (AP)

In this photo taken Aug. 7, 2009, American Medical Response operations manager Ken Keller talks about the specially-equipped ambulance used for obese patients at the company's Topeka, Kan. facility. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - The memory still bothers Ken Keller: A panicked ambulance crew had a critically ill patient, but the man weighed more than 1,000 pounds and could not fit inside the vehicle. And the stretcher wasn’t sturdy enough to hold him.


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