This is a real situation. Image not to be used in a defamatory context. Anaesthetised patient prior to gastric band surgery. This morbidly obese woman

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This is a real situation. Image not to be used in a defamatory context. Anaesthetised patient prior to gastric band surgery. This morbidly obese woman has a BMI of 68. A normal BMI falls within the range of

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