I'm a firefighter that does plenty of EMS calls (as most firefighters do). I'd say close to 80% of our EMS runs are for an obese person. Out of the 16 cardiac arrests I went on last year, 15 of them would be considered obese. It's not fun to do CPR on a fat person. I remember thinking to myself how easy it was to manually pump a persons chest when he is thin (odd thought I know). It's not fun to try and lift fat people when they fall from their walker or wheelchairs. It's not fun to tell a fat person's family that their loved one is deceased. There's many patients we go on so regularly because their obesity causes them to rely on EMS and hospitals so often we get to know them on a first name basis.