WASHINGTON — You know that feeling when you're admitted to the hospital, but you just have to have a Big Mac?
It seems a lot of people do. In fact, many hospitals offer fast-food restaurants inside the hospital. Some hospitals even offer delivery to patient rooms.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine made this map, showing which hospitals offer fast food inside the hospital.
Of the 208 hospitals that PCRM investigated for their report, 43 of them had fast-food chains inside. A public records request revealed many of the contracts between the hospitals and fast-food chains.
Money appears to be the main factor in the various leases, with exclusive contracts, variable pricing and early termination possibilities if profits don't reach $1 million at some of the hospitals.
This is upsetting for PCRM; a group that works to minimize chronic illnesses like obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
The study quoted a McDonald's website that warns employees about fast food, reminding them that “people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease must be very careful about choosing fast food because of its high fat.”