Your thoughtful communication can go a long way in forging a connection and helping them lose weight. Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, remitting, multifactorial disease, for which different therapies may be effective for other patients
The review also notes a temporary worsening of diabetes-related retinopathy during rapid glycemic improvement, an increased aspiration risk from delayed gastric emptying, and the need to protect against nutritional deficiencies and loss of muscle or bone mass during rapid weight loss
Oh, theyre not doing this. But if you take the time to listen to what theyre telling you, theyre telling you what their life has been. Stanford says that the medical community has not treated obesity as a disease until now
If they cant, they think something is wrong with them
As their use expands, NPs occupy a central role in guiding appropriate prescribing, educating patients, and monitoring outcomes
This is what all the trials are showing us. But barriers to accessing these medications remain
