E81: Obesity Medicine: Medical Assessment Before Starting Obesity Medications

We have finally finished going over lifestyle factors for obesity and mental health, and now if that was not enough to help the patient for weight loss and metabolic factors, we will need to consider using medications, but before we start medications, we need to do a medical assessment. Actually you would do this assessment before lifestyle factors, but I think this is a good time to talk about it right before we talk about obesity medications in the next podcast, so it may not be as exciting of a topic, but we have to screen patients for other causes of obesity as well as factors that will help us know what medication to select because there are contraindications to all medications as well as times when we can kill two birds with one stone, so you definitely should not breeze over this topic!