Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?

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40. But at 6'3" 238 lbs his BMI is 29.7 -- under the obese threshold of 30.

So why would a man who is not obese, according to his doctors, be in such desperate need as to qualify for "compassionate use."

Of course we know he is actually something like 320 with a BMI of 40, which is the clinical threshold for severe or morbid obesity. Guess that would qualify a "well-connected" man for compassionate use to treat life threatening obesity.