The Dangers of "Obesity First" Medicine - Part 1
Weight and Healthcare · Ragen Chastain
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Show Notes
Many of you reached out to me about two articles. One in the New York Times by Gina Kolata about so-called “Ob*sity First Medicine” - OFM (you may remember Kolata from a different article I wrote about that essentially lobbied for insurance coverage for weight loss drugs and failed to disclose that each person interviewed was on the payroll of the drug companies.) Another an opinion piece in the Washington Post by Leana S. Wen. We’ll discuss the NYT article in part 1, along with some general issues and the WaPo article in Part 2.
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