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Effective weight management requires a physician-patient partnership.
Physicians should focus on building supportive relationships with patients to improve weight management outcomes.
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Achieving and maintaining weight loss is more likely to be successful when there is a physician-patient partnership.
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Outpatient Management of Obesity: A Primary Care Perspective
James O. Hill et al. · Obesity Research · 2002
DOI 10.1038/oby.2002.205
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