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TSwizzle :
They are not lying. In Florida some even go to Seaworld. I’m not kidding. We also, have had to send a patient to the post office to get weighed cause our scale didn’t go high enough.
2025-10-04 02:23:46
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MegAloia :
I had a zoo refuse to take my patient.
2025-10-04 02:11:08
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Taylor V :
I’ve had the reverse happen lol
2025-10-04 14:30:46
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Alex K :
X-ray here I’ve had to send people to the special address when I lived in Denver. All machines have limits and when they are too large or too heavy they have to go there. Not just fat. There was a body builder who was too large to fit.
2025-10-04 13:13:22
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FyreGryffin :
I'm a paramedic and I have transported patients to the zoo. It was during the day.
2025-10-04 04:24:48
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Nicole :
No zoo becase that’s not a thing in rual areas but I’ve sent one to a horse Vet for scans
2025-10-04 17:22:52
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Liz :
This is true! A patient on my floor needed an MRI and would have needed to go to a zoo to get the imaging done. That patient refused to go though so we didn’t end up sending them.
2025-10-04 03:17:09
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Hannah Nelson :
We had to have a zoo assist in cremating a patient that was too large to fit into a regular cremator
2025-10-04 04:10:04
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Tete :
MRI machine have a WEIGHT limit.
2025-10-06 00:14:11
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user6959976938677 :
Truth. 💯 hospital mris and cts have weight and width restrictions and they are not that extreme. More and more, patients do not fit in these hospital sized imaging units and they need to be sent to the zoo imaging as they can accommodate larger patients. We were just talking about this at my hospital two days ago how they need to start giving us a larger machine in the hospital.
2025-10-05 13:13:19
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Meg Money :
Oh yea dude. 100% have heard of this. Never personally done it, but my preceptor has 🫢
2025-10-04 00:50:14
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🚑Jules🚑 :
I’ve never seen it happen but I have heard stories about it happening. I’ve met somebody who had to bring a patient to the zoo for imaging because she was too big to fit in the machines. This EMT felt so bad telling this patient that she needed to bring her to the zoo for imaging. The patient was like “I knew you were going to say that. I’ve been to the zoo for imaging before. I know I’m a big lady & I know I’m too big to fit inside a machine here so don’t feel bad. It’s my fault that I’m this big.”
2025-10-05 20:40:41
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Chelbie Rivae :
Yeah man. Bariatric patients in Knoxville have had to go to the Knoxville zoo for imaging.
2025-10-04 01:14:11
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user5088127976455 :
I work at a horse hospital and I had a 3a phone call from a human hospital trying to send a patient for a stat MRI. We cannot accommodate at our facility. It’s a liability issue. Also our mri is a standard human mri so it wouldn’t have helped anyways.
2025-10-04 04:30:57
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gulfcoastexoticpets :
Legit. Larger pts may not fit in standard hospital equipment.
2025-10-04 01:25:14
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jrog33 :
Yes. Texas medical center is next door to Houston Zoo.
2025-10-04 08:30:23
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✧ ✦M A R I E✦ ✧ :
It’s a thing!
2025-10-06 11:02:32
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crystalwhisenhunt8 :
Yes I've seen it happen three times. I would personally be mortified if I had to be scanned on a large animal machine at the zoo.
2025-10-04 19:38:19
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L.Mac7 :
in central Texas, patients have had to go to SeaWorld for their CT machine. my daughter is an emt and was mind blow
2025-10-06 11:52:41
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heather1231978 :
I was years ago a radiology secretary and had to call the zoo to set a patient up with a CT.
2025-10-05 12:19:50
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user61939583622 :
it's an urban legend hahhaa
2025-10-04 15:20:55
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Bea Archer :
Not just imagining. South Florida, hospitals loose too much money on hyperbaric. If you have the bends you will be keeping polo ponies company.
2025-10-05 06:45:58
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Kayla Alcantar :
I’m a nurse practitioner and I can confirm this happens outpatient as well!
2025-10-04 04:19:03
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L A U R A :
I had an mri yesterday. I’m an average size 6-8 and it’s kind of tight. I was thinking the whole time how would everyone fit.
2025-10-04 15:53:00
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Miss. Lacey :
I work in Michigan and we send our patients to Michigan State veterinary, for CTs or MRI
2025-10-05 17:03:18
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