The argument that obesity drugs are unnecessary because they don't teach patients anything is flawed, as many chronic disease medications are taken long-term without expectation of a cure.

“for many drugs anti-seizure medications if you have seizures anti-hypertensives anti-diabetes drugs um Etc you're going to take those for the rest of your life if you're in the right class for that we don't say but the person with schizophrenia shouldn't get the drug because if we stop giving it to them the schizophrenia symptoms come back say no it's schizophrenia is a serious disease we need to give it to them with obesity this has come up again”