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Bloomberg Businessweek Weekend - January 7th, 2022

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Are You Prescription Drugs for Obesity?

How can doctors who potentially see this as something that could really like prescribing one of these drugs help one of their obese patients? How are they allowed, you know, as a doctor, not to prescribe it? That's a very good question, carroan. And i think a lot of this has to do with the way opesity hase previously been seen, right? People think of obesity, orr being overweighed, as really being a something that you kind of did to yourself,. But there's more biologically going on than merely sort of ino refraining from getting on the treadmill every day.

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