"Inpatients at Southampton's teaching hospitals are to be offered advice on lifestyle and weight management as part of a radical new project. Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust's pharmacy team has invented an innovative plan to tackle obesity during routine risk assessments for venous thromboembolism (VTE), better known as blood clots.Why would pharmacists be doing this?
All patients admitted to hospital are susceptible to VTE, which causes an estimated 25,000 preventable deaths per year in England, so safety reviews are now carried out on all inpatients.
Pharmacists conduct these assessments and identify risk factors, such as obesity, that can cause fatal clots."
Drug sales.
VTE is treated with drugs.
Once in the door, you can bet that the sales pictches for fat person drugs (like OTC alli) and supplements are just around the corner.
It won't work to help the fat since the IMHO malpractice of fat person drugs is unsuccessful and fatsos would rather die than act on "advice on lifestyle," anyway.
But it might increase the sales of the snake oils.
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