Exploring the Future of Obesity Treatment: Medications, Surgery, and the Battle Against Bias

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Scott Butsch from the Cleveland Clinic’s Bariatric and Metabolic Institute discusses the evolving landscape of obesity medicine. He covers the history of obesity treatments, from behavioral interventions to groundbreaking medical therapies like GLP-1 receptor agonists and their future potential. The conversation also explores the challenges of bias, accessibility, and the integration of medications with surgical options for effective, long-term obesity management.

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0:00.0	Behind the surgery podcast relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day. So hi oh you BTK fans it's Scott here along with Jason and we're super pleased to
0:27.1	kind of touch on the topic we have not addressed and that's the anti-obesity
0:31.3	medications and some of the hot topics that are around there and I'm super pleased to have Dr Scott Bush who is here from the clinic to join us who is heading our bariatric and metabolic institute pathway.
0:43.4	Scott, thanks for joining us so much.
0:46.1	Thanks, Scott, and I appreciate the time
0:49.2	to have the opportunity to talk to you today.
0:51.6	So for all of our listeners out there, can you give us a little bit about your
0:55.1	background about how you got into this place and what is it currently that you do right now?
1:00.2	Yeah, so I practice obesity medicine which is a growing sub-specialty of
1:04.1	intural medicine. I did a fellowship in this field in obesity medicine about 17
1:10.0	years ago. At the time there were no fellowship so I ended up being the first one in the country to do so.
1:16.5	Now there's 25 subspecialty fellowships across the country specializing in obesity medicine and mainly I focus my practice on
1:25.5	taking care of people who have obesity specifically who obviously need to lose
1:29.4	weight and I've obviously done this for a long time.
1:32.8	So if you just kind of set the stage for us
1:34.9	from a historical standpoint,
1:36.6	so we know, there's a long history of bariatric surgery
1:40.8	and its efficacy and within the last five or six years there's been a lot of
1:45.4	new tools in the toolkit for you know the medical treatment of obesity you know I'm old
1:50.4	enough to where I remember you know kind of crazed in the 80s and 90s of
1:53.5	Fenn but maybe you could talk about you know kind of the history of
1:57.1	obesity medicine of anti-obesty medications and how now is different.
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