Dr. Rachel Bedard

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alcohol or other substances.

And it's been my experience that for the patients for whom I've been able to prescribe Ozempic, which is the one that I've been able to get paid for, it really does help with all of those things.

Like, their diabetes improves.

They lose weight.

their chronic pain improves, their blood pressure improves, their cholesterol markers improve, and patients really like it.

Like, I had this great paranoid schizophrenic lady

who was on it, she was the first patient I ever prescribed it to in primary care.

And she was in my office, and she's sort of like a little bit psychotic at baseline, but she takes her medicines.

So she's telling me some story like I kind of can't follow about like some people who have been like tapping her phone.

And then I said, oh, wow, you lost like 12 pounds or something, because I'm looking at her chart.

And she pauses and she like locks in, and she goes, I haven't weighed this much since 1996.

Oh.

And I died.

Like, I was like, you go, girl.

So happy for you.

And that's, like, that's been true for a bunch of my patients, that they feel better in their bodies both psychologically and physically.

And they don't work for everybody.

There are certainly, you know, 5% to 10% of people who don't tolerate them because the side effects are too much.

Like, some people just get much more nauseous than the average person.