Lunch And Learn With Dr. Berry

Let's talk about weight loss myths... How can we stop blaming patients for being obese and start that path towards creating spaces to provide them with better care and medications that they really need? Obesity was just recognized as a medical disease back in 2013, and so often, conversations around obesity medications contain bias, even among us physicians. People tend to overestimate the power of lifestyle modifications, thinking that everything in weight loss revolves around our minds. But if as clinicians, we understand that we have the most powerful tools to help our patients live a healthier life, we’ll then be empowered to make evidence-based decisions, instead of those coming from judgments and bias. Join us today as Dr. Sylvia awakens us in this conversation about weight loss and the power of medications. Dr. Sylvia Gonsahn-Bollie is a dual board-certified Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician who empowers women to stop obsessing over the scale, feel great, and get to their happy healthy w