When Cut staffers started hearing from friends and family members that health-care providers were bringing up Ozempic in ways that left them feeling offended or betrayed, we asked features writer Angelina Chapin to look into exactly what kind of conversations were going down inside doctors’ offices. She spoke with many fat patients who felt their providers ignored pressing health concerns — fertility struggles, back pain, swelling from lymphedema — and aggressively pushed them to take Ozempic for weight loss instead. Their stories are enraging and show the dark side of the miracle-drug narrative. |
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