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Article: Your doctor, your diet coach: physician-run weight loss clinics are the latest craze in America's $58 billion dieting industry. Doctors are prescribing drugs, "fat dissolving" injections, and severe diets to help patients lose weight. Fran Smith reports on the trend--the good, the bad, and the dangerous.(bodywise)(Company overview)
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- O, The Oprah Magazine
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- October 1, 2007
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LOVE HANDLES. ROSE KATZ, 43, an attorney, wanted to lose hers. Even though she worked out five times a week and watched what she ate, she just couldn't smooth those bulges. Katz had read that injections of something called Lipodissolve might help. An Internet search led her to the Center for Medical Weight Loss near her home on Long Island, New York--a place founded and staffed by doctors. She figured she'd be in good hands and that she could get some quick shots and be done.
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At the center, Andre Giannakopoulos, MD, gave the 147-pound, 5'5" mother of three a physical, an EKG, and blood tests. He found that the dose of medication she was taking ...
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