Are Docs Finally Ready To Embrace Obesity Drugs?
Executive Summary
New clinical practice guidelines from the Endocrine Society are seen as a positive step toward changing physician attitudes about obesity, helping doctors to see obesity as a chronic disease that needs to be treated with pharmacotherapy, as opposed to a lifestyle choice that merely requires behavior modifications.
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