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Multidisciplinary Approach to Obesity Management: A Case Report
Published on: May 30, 2025
[Collaboration between primary care physicians and dieticians: let's sit around the table!]
Anne Catherine Pereira Miozzari1, Penka Villar, Valérie Miserez
1Service de médecine et de premier recours, Département de médecine communautaire, HUG, 1211 Genève 14. anne.pereira@hcuge.ch
Abstract:
Obesity is a major public health problem. Primary care physicians play a key role in managing nutritional disorders. However, they often lack the necessary resources to answer patients' questions. Collaboration with professional nutritionists helps primary care physicians to improve their treatment of patients with problems related to nutrition by means of specific knowledge and therapeutic approaches.
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