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More Problems With Obesity First Medicine - Part 2
Published 1 year, 8 months ago
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In part 1 we discussed a New York Times article about so-called “Ob*sity First Medicine” (OFM) which suggests that higher weight people with health issues should be targeted for weight loss treatment (in this case specifically the new GLP-1 diet drugs) treating them differently than thinner people with the same symptoms/presentations/diagnoses.
Today we’re going to look at an opinion piece in WaPo that discusses the same phenomenon.
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