doctors and weight loss

Flying home now from a convention of aesthetics physicians that was held in Vegas.

So many phyicians in the field of making people look prettier and younger do not do "weight loss" as part of their practices. However, of all the things for doctors to do to help their patients look younger, getting involved with true weight loss is 'A-Number-One". What I mean by "true" weight loss is NOT subjecting people to 500 calorie a day meal plans and injections of chemicals of dubious merit. Shakes, bars and prepackaged foods are not a long-term weight loss solution.

At the convention we met a number of primary care physicians who are doing some aesthetic procedures in their offices. These physicians are coming out of the box from just treating disease states and starting to focus on prevention. Unfortunately insurance companies do not foster this type of attention because they do not pay for it and physicians, in order to stay in business cannot spend time on unreimbursed services....

All physicians should be ionvolved with helping patients lose weight. If we, as a profession , became more involved, some great strides could be made in this national epidemic.