The Importance of Communication in Obesity

All of us, we are all constantly moderating what we say and how we say it based upon who we're talking to. I would say, in patients with obesity, we really worry about blood lipids. And so I want to be sure to check your blood lipids today, or something like that. However, if that patient was just one person in a study group of a thousand patients, I might say something like, well, patients in the study group were all either Class 2 or Class 3 obese. That's not nearly as socially delicate,. Because we're talking about people in the aggregate, as opposed to singling out an individual. So we don't have to be as