They don’t give you tests a smaller person would get because most facilities don’t have the fucking equipment to, you whale. Go to a zoo to get tests or lose some goddamned weight.
I'm a little late, but I want to clarify for anyone who still believes this is a possibility that the vast majority of
zoos do not have special MRI machines that can be used to obtain imaging for fat fucks who "don't fit" in those designed for humans. All of the claims you read on the internet of some fat bitch having to go to a zoo or horse racing stable to get an MRI are pure bullshit. In this post, I will outline some of the reasons why, although others have previously done a better job of writing about it in this very thread.
1. An MRI machine, even an entry level, 1.5 T model, costs upwards of $300,000. There are also very specific structural requirements for buildings housing an MRI machine, necessitating extensive site planning and preparation. Older buildings may require significant renovations in order to be suitable, and at a minimum, the machine and magnet require hundreds of square feet of space. The vast majority of zoos, aside from the handful of really famous ones we all know about, don't have the budget or the space to install a dedicated animal MRI, and even if they did...
2. Economics does not work this way. Nobody is designing a specialized giant MRI instrument that can accommodate a hippopotamus, because there simply isn't demand for such a thing. There are very few facilities that would ever be in a position to buy such a thing, and even if anyone did want one...
3. The laws of physics do not work this way. A hypothetical "zoo animal MRI" wouldn't work any better for fat fucks than the machines available to hospitals. I'm not going to sperg about how an MRI actually works (right now), but trust me when I say that there is absolutely no machine on the planet that can provide useful diagnostic images of fat lards like Amber. In short, the size of the bore - the hole you stick the patient in to obtain the image - is important. Those "open" MRI machines that some hospitals offer to fatasses and claustrophobic patients simply do not provide the same image quality as their traditional MRI counterparts. Yes, for most applications, the small loss of resolution isn't a big deal, but even if it works for most patients...
4. Bariatric medicine does not work this way. Having a layer of fat a foot and a half thick around anything that might be of interest to a radiologist is not really a recipe for a high quality image. Regardless of imaging modality, the fatter the patient, the worse the quality of the image, and at some point, it's nearly impossible to acquire a diagnostically useful image at all. There is no area of medicine that is not made more difficult by obesity. The human body is just not meant to be completely encased in 350 pounds of adipose tissue. Captive animals, even big ones like elephants, don't get supermorbidly obese, so a hypothetical large animal MRI wouldn't have this issue.
In conclusion, it's far more common for animals to be brought to a hospital, especially a research hospital affiliated with a university for an MRI than the other way around. It usually happens after hours.