Christine Meyer is an internal medicine physician.

Finding balance: How my practice became more Amazon than Etsy

Physician
May 6, 2023

The other day, I spent an excessive amount of time trying to dry some lettuce leaves for a salad. After failing to act on my thought many times, I decided I needed a salad spinner. Due to my menopause brain (attention span: zero), I grabbed my phone, opened the Amazon app, and ordered the highest-rated salad spinner.

None of this information is groundbreaking, but what was impressive was that the package …

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Finding balance: How my practice became more Amazon than Etsy

A personal mission to get obese patients on GLP-1 agonists

Conditions
October 19, 2022

Admittedly, this comes to you from a place of concussion-inducing-head-banging-against-brick-walls-level frustration.

For the past year, I have made it a personal mission to get people suffering from obesity on GLP-1 agonists. These drugs are all in the same class, have identical mechanisms, and three are the same generics. (Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsus are all semaglutide.)

They are advertised as Wegovy, Ozempic, Rybelsus, Saxenda, Trulicity, and Mounjaro.

To say these are life savers is …

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A personal mission to get obese patients on GLP-1 agonists

Will the CDC ever rise again?

Policy
September 25, 2020

I hate to say this, but I fear it is over. For our entire relationship, I have looked to the CDC to guide and educate me. I have put my faith in their recommendations. I have defended their stances on everything from obesity to Lyme disease to influenza across decades. I have done so because they never let me down.

Until now.

I am not sure that the powers that be at …

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Will the CDC ever rise again?

We are not trying to be conservative or liberal. We are human.

Policy
June 13, 2020

My mother has a tattoo. Really. She does.

There is a small blue crucifix on the inner aspect of her right wrist. Let me pause here to point out a few things. First of all, my mother is not a “tattoo” person. Secondly, the inner aspect of the wrist is one of the most sensitive areas of the human body. Third, my mom doesn’t like needles.  All that to say, if …

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We are not trying to be conservative or liberal. We are human.