PJ Vogt

I can feel even now saying that sentence, the heat and excitement of all the arguments it provokes.

But for Dr. Bedard, those arguments made her want to yell at the screen.

Forget, even for a second, the cosmetic implications.

GLP-1s were transforming the lives of some of her most vulnerable patients.

She thought more of the oxygen in the conversation should have gone there, and that the discourse certainly should not have been so focused on the very particular lives of media elites.

We're going to take a short break.

When we come back, we're going to move away from discourse, away from the conversations of yesterday's internet to today, the actual science behind GLP-1s and all the weird things doctors have been learning about them in their last three years of widespread deployment.

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