Obesity Surgeons Challenge Exclusion From the Prescription of Participative Drugs

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SPCO applauds the sharing of drugs for obesity, but criticizes the decree that reserves the prescription to endocrinologists, internists and pediatricians, excluding specialized surgeons.

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The sharing of medications to treat obesity is generating controversy.

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The Portuguese Society of Obesity Surgery welcomes the sharing of medications for obesity in the SNS. But it challenges that surgeons stay out of the list of specialties that they can prescribe. From February 2027, the state will start sharing in 15% certain medications for the treatment of obesity. Each patient can benefit from sharing for 12 months, starting from the first dispensation. The ordinance, published on October 22, reserves the pres…

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Know that physicians can prescribe participative obesity medications

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The arrival of more modern and effective drugs to treat obesity has changed the approach of the disease, with results that...

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Portuguese Society of Obesity Surgery appeals to the review of the ordinance that limits prescription to endocrinologists, internists and pediatricians