A personal mission to get obese patients on GLP-1 agonists

<p>"Obesity is not the consequence of bad behaviors it is a disease that finally has effective, safe, lasting treatments. Patients with obesity have been marginalized long enough. We, especially health care providers, have got to start taking down barriers for these patients — not adding to them."</p> <p><a href="https://www.christinemeyermd.com/dr-meyer" target= "_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Christine Meyer</a> is an internal medicine physician.</p> <p>She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "<a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/2022/10/a-personal-mission-to-get-obese-patients-on-glp-1-agonists.html">A personal mission to get obese patients on GLP-1 agonists</a>."</p> <p><a href="https://nuance.com/daxinaction"><img class= "alignnone wp-image-424286 size-medium" src= "https://www.kevinmd.com/wp-content/uploads/NuanceLogo_Horz_k-2-300x62.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="62" /></a></p> <p><em>The Podcast by KevinMD is brought to you by the <a href= "https://nuance.com/daxinaction">Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience</a>.</em></p> <p><em>With so many demands on their time, physicians today report record levels of burnout. Burnout is caused by many factors, one of which is clinical documentation. Studies indicate physicians spend two hours documenting care for every hour spent with patients.</em></p> <p><em>At Nuance, we are committed to helping physicians do what you love – care for patients – and spend less time on clinical documentation. The <a href="https://nuance.com/daxinaction">Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience</a>, or DAX for short, is an AI-powered, ambient clinical intelligence solution that automatically captures patient encounters securely and accurately at the point of care. Physicians who use DAX have reported a 50 percent decrease in documentation time and a 70 percent reduction in feelings of burnout, and 83 percent of patients say their physician is more personable and conversational.</em></p> <p><em>Rediscover the joy of medicine with clinical