Prevention should start in the Doctor's office
For more than 2o years I have been reading research that shows that patients are likely to follow advice about prevention if their family doctor provides it. Yet from the Children's Hospital in Pittsburg: Few Physicians Discuss Obesity With Families in Outpatient Setting, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Researcher Finds.
In 1995, physicians treating children in the outpatient setting offered obesity-related counseling (diet/nutrition, exercise or weight management counseling) only 4 percent of the time. That rate rose to 15 percent in 2002, according to research led by Goutham Rao, MD, clinical director of the Weight Management and Wellness Center at Children’s. We need to encourage our peers to do better.