“Imagine if you put yourself in that person’s shoes what that feels like. You’ve been telling me you’ve been doing this or tried these diets, but are you sticking to them correctly?” she said. “Don’t say: I don’t know if you’ve been eating well.So why call it morbid obesity? The language in and of itself is stigmatizing.” So, there are a few ICD-10 codes, for example, that are out there that I will never use,” said Dr.
“We have to be careful about even how we’re labeling our charts before the patient gets in the door.“I’m able to, over time-maybe not all in the first visit-begin to get them to understand how these two go together and how the work we do together will address both.” “Then I start explaining obesity is a disease of the brain and how it interrelates to the regulation between the pancreas, which of course is the organ that produces that insulin that keeps our blood sugar normal,” she said.I tell them by using certain modalities, we’re able to address both concurrently and have a huge impact on not only their morbidity but also increase their life expectancy.” “When working with patients, my goal is to get you to the healthiest weight and what aesthetics goes with that. They don’t know this concept of obesity as a disease,” said Dr. “People often understand or have a general understanding of diabetes.Stanford shared some areas physicians, and their care teams can focus on to improve care for patients with obesity. Stanford, noting that “80% is a sizeable number and what we are seeing in the endocrine space-and I would say even in the cardiometabolic health space altogether-is this recognition that if we treat obesity as a disease, we affect downstream impacts including diabetes within that treatment scope.”ĭuring the webinar, Dr. “We must recognize that 80% of those with type 2 diabetes also have the disease of obesity,” said Dr. Related Coverage What doctors wish patients knew about maintaining a healthy weight
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