Dr. Suzy Lessing talks about the importance of using medication to help with weight management but how she always personalizes and minimizes medication for patients in general.
Dr. Suzy Lessing shares
Most of my patients know that I really love to stop medications.
I have a less is more attitude towards medications and I love cleaning up a medication list and eliminating things that are not necessary.
That said as an internal medicine doctor I feel that medication is also critically important to keeping certain health conditions under control and improving health.
So for example diabetes high blood pressure asthma medications are really important in controlling these diseases and reducing the risk for poor health outcomes down the road the disease of obesity is just like that medication is critical in treating this and helping with weight management and reducing the risk for other problems down the road like cardiovascular disease and a number of different kinds of cancers.
I use medication to treat obesity but just like with when I treat asthma I don’t have all of my patients on the same exact medication they don’t all get the same inhaler prescription from me.
I take a personalized approach.
Everybody is different and a different medication might be right for one person whereas something like an injectable you’ve heard about might be right for other people but it’s important to really do my due diligence and know what’s right for each patient.
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