A person with one leg has shared the "hilarious" story of how an insurance coverage firm despatched a nurse to his house to know why he was "dangerously" underweight for his top, with out bearing in mind his lacking limb.
Josh Sundquist, a comic who has 2.3 million followers on TikTok, shared his story on the platform in a pair of movies which have been seen over 2.9 million occasions.
His story highlights how Physique Mass Index (BMI), which is an individual's weight-to-height ratio, just isn't all the time an correct measure of an individual's well being. An individual is taken into account underweight if they've a BMI of lower than 18.5, regular if they've a BMI of between 18.5 and 24.9, chubby between 25 to 29.9, and overweight at 30 or higher.
However, for example, a wholesome however heavy physique builder could wrongly rating as overweight on the BMI scale. Or, as Sundquist's story demonstrates, an individual with a lacking limb can rating dangerously low when they might be a wholesome weight.
Dr. Eva Tseng, assistant professor of medication on the Johns Hopkins College College of Medication, beforehand advised Newsweek that BMI: "Doesn't immediately measure extra physique fats and it doesn't regulate for components like age, intercourse, ethnicity and muscle mass. It additionally doesn't inform us the distribution of physique fats in an individual."
Within the video, which might be seen right here, Sundquist movies himself wanting confused alongside the phrases: "When my medical health insurance firm despatched a nurse to my home as a result of my physique weight is 'dangerously low for my top.'"
In a second video replying to a commenter, which might be seen right here, he stated the nurse arrived at his home with a printout from a pc system saying that he was "probably malnourished" after his "very harmful" weight-to-height ratio was flagged by synthetic intelligence.
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"The pc system was unable to see one thing else in my well being historical past that may clarify it, so she has to come back in and he or she has to ask me all these questions in a script," he stated.
Sundquist stated the nurse requested him if he thinks he eats sufficient energy day by day.
"And I used to be like, 'look, I do know I am sort of skinny however now that you just're standing right here, I feel we will agree there's a greater clarification for this example," he stated.
Sundquist stated the nurse needed to ask about his well being historical past, and he defined he misplaced his leg 25 years in the past.
The nurse then requested if he had any current operations, and he stated he had two knee surgical procedures, to which the nurse replied "on which knee," in line with Sundquist.
"I am going to offer you one guess," Sundquist, who had his left leg amputated from the hip down, stated within the video whereas laughing.
He stated the nurse then replied: "Oh, proper, proper."
In a remark accompanying the put up, Sundquist stated: "btw [by the way] I've all the time discovered nurses to be tremendous good and customarily fantastic ppl [people]. This nurse was simply following (defective) directions created by a pc."
Over 1,500 individuals commented on the second video, with many declaring the absurdity of the scenario. Many joked Sundquist ought to have replied "left, left," when the nurse stated "oh proper, proper."
One person commented: "Haha that is hilarious!!!"
One other wrote: "But one more reason BMI is not a unit of well being measure."
One stated: "Awkward scenario and awkward questions," alongside three laughing emojis.
"That poor nurse goes to cringe about that for the remainder of her life," one other person stated alongside a laughing emoji.
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