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Podcast: The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Episode: Sickness With a Side of Fries: The SAD State of U.S. Hospitals | Dr. Roxanne Becker
Description: Americans say there is no place for the likes of McDonald's and Chick-fil-A in hospitals. Â The giants of fast food are serving greasy, fatty, artery-clogging foods in the same building where patients are receiving artery-opening stents and pacemakers. Often these lifesaving surgeries are just a floor or two above where the unhealthy combo meals are being served up. Â In a way it's like having an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting above a bar. It just doesn't make sense. Â Eating fast food four times a week may increase heart disease ris...