Doctor’s weight-loss drug offer to Sask. body positive group insensitive: founder
With the increase in the use of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, a Saskatoon group focused on body positivity says an email from a local doctor left them questioning how the medications are being promoted and prescribed. It came in the form of a Facebook message that Cierra Giesbrecht, the founder of The Curvy Club, thought was a troll at first.“At first, I thought it was a troll,” Giesbrecht told Global News. “I couldn’t believe that an actual health-care provider in our province would be so bold.”That message was from Dr.
- ▪With the increase in the use of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, a Saskatoon group focused on body positivity says an email from a local doctor left them questioning how the medications are being promoted and prescribed.
- ▪It came in the form of a Facebook message that Cierra Giesbrecht, the founder of The Curvy Club, thought was a troll at first.“At first, I thought it was a troll,” Giesbrecht told Global News.
- ▪“I couldn’t believe that an actual health-care provider in our province would be so bold.”That message was from Dr.
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With the increase in the use of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, a Saskatoon group focused on body positivity says an email from a local doctor left them questioning how the medications are being promoted and prescribed. It came in the form of a Facebook message that Cierra Giesbrecht, the founder of The Curvy Club, thought was a troll at first.“At first, I thought it was a troll,” Giesbrecht told Global News. “I couldn’t believe that an actual health-care provider in our province would be so bold.”That message was from Dr. Dennis Wardman, an addiction medicine physician who recently moved to Saskatoon.“A few months ago [I] started prescribing weight loss medication at a clinic I work at in Regina,” Wardman wrote in the Facebook message.
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