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VIDEO: Acknowledge biases to help patients lose weight
7 days ago - By Healio
SAN DIEGO - In this video exclusive, Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, talks with Scott Kahan, MD, MPH, about explicit and implicit weight bias, which can cause physicians to treat patients differently because of their weight.
Leffert is managing partner at North Texas Endocrine Center and past president of AACE. He is also an Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member. Kahan is director of the National Center for Weight and Wellness, faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Heavier patients receive less care and poorer quality care, Kahan said, and perhaps
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