Weight Loss Meds
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on weight loss drugs, which is a really a hot topic. And we have a great guest with us. We'll get to her in just a moment. We have a great crew that always helps us do our illustrious shows. We have Maddy Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, who help us with our research, our production team. manager is Matthew Campbell, who gets all the shows out in beautiful form. And then, of course, there's Sheridan Nygaard, who's actually helping us today with our recording, but also she is one of our researchers and also helps us with marketing. So thank you to you guys. You're great. Then, of course, there's Clarence Jones, And he and I are a great tag team and we enjoy working together.
So Clarence, it's always great to have you on. And again, our sponsor is Human Partnership. And they're a great community health organization. Do wonderful work in the community to help all of us address all the various different health issues that we all face. Check them out at humanpartnership.org. Check us out at healthchatterpodcast.org. I'm Stan Shandling, one of the hosts, along with Clarence. And we can get on with our show. Clarence, I'll let you introduce our wonderful guest for the day.
Thank you, Stan. This is one of those times where I'm really excited about Health Chatter and the podcast that we're doing because of the way in which we seek out treasures in our community who are people that are doing things that are noteworthy and that we should be sharing information with. And today we have a wonderful guest, Vissera Malaski, who is a pharmacist. She has served patients in North Minneapolis for eight years. first as an intern, and then later as a pharmacist. And she is passionate about culturally competent care, addressing healthcare disparities, and focusing on evidence-based therapies. And I think that you're going to find out as we start talking with her, because as you just said, Sam, we are talking about this research for weight loss drugs. And it's really been a big issue. We were working with MDH, and they were talking about childhood obesity. And we know that this thing is just blowing up.
And so we're excited that we have the opportunity on Health Chatter to be able to enter into this conversation. So welcome, Ms. Sarah. And why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself so our listeners can get to know you.
Yeah, so I have been in pharmacy since I believe 2011, 2012 as a technician and eventually became a pharmacist. I tried out different types of pharmacy, but my passion was community pharmacy. which is not generally what pharmacy schools want you to go into. They want you to go into hospital or research or more clinical care, which is more prestigious. But I really love working with people directly and building relationships with people. And I've been a pharmacist on Northside for almost five years. In July, it'll be five years that I'll have been a pharmacist in Northside. So really happy serving the community I serve and I wouldn't do anything else.
You know, interesting enough, though, Sarah, when we started talking about this whole issue around weight loss drugs, your name came up. And, you know, whenever I mention your name, people are like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to talk to Sarah. So we're excited to have you. And so with that, I am going to let our prober, Mr. Stan, start with the first question for you.
So, Sarah, you know, it seems to me, you know, you kind of hear about these weight loss drugs. And, you know, our research crew has done, you know, some great background research for us. So give us a little bit of history on this. You know, more than anything, it's like all of a sudden it kind of hit the scene. And it almost seemed at least, to me as a healthcare professional, is almost like it came across as almost like a fad. Something, oh my God, you know, wow, this is something I could just take and I don't have to worry about getting fat or obese or whatever. So help us with that kind of conversation and then also the history of it a little bit.
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