Wait for dramatic societal change, or help patients improve their health right now? It’s great that the government has chosen the second option by announcing that NHS patients will soon be able to get Wegovy from their GPs 🔎 Analysis StuartJRitchie
argued that using drugs like semaglutide to help tackle obesity would be “shortsighted” – instead, we should “promote healthy diets, redesign our towns to get people walking and help shift societal values towards food”.
Compare that to a drug where trials have shown that it induces weight loss in the vast majority of those who take it, and which could help reduce huge numbers of cases of diabetes, heart attack, stroke, and other obesity-related illnesses that ruin lives and cost the NHS millions.of the adult population—are currently suffering from obesity. Trying to affect some nebulous “societal values” isn’t going to help them lose the weight they want to lose right now.
And second, nobody is being forced to take the injections: the side effects are things that consenting patients can read up on and decide about for themselves. Do you feel like the weight-loss benefits outweigh a 1-in-2 risk of feeling nauseous, or the risks of much rarer but more serious side-effects? Then you can discuss the drug with your doctor. If not, you can try something else.
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