Doctors Seek Additional Training Due to Obesity Patient Boom

Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, professor of medicine, pediatrics & surgery, and the medical director of obesity medicine at Vanderbilt University...
15 hours ago
from: Medscape

Health care, Medicine, Obesity, Overweight

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