This is AN EXCELLENT PRACTICE to get used to. Typically, patients come to their doctor with a complaint and expect to leave the office with SOMETHING in their hands, the solution. Usually, it would be a prescription for an actual drug that you can pick up at the pharmacy.
Here, the complaint can be anywhere in series of other health problems caused by being overweight. Therefore, it follows that the solution is to lose weight via exercise!
The beauty of this is that the patient can't even complain that they didn't get a "prescription" from the visit. Sure, they can grip and demand an alternative. But! I am sure that to anyone's "medical expertise" that the best solution to the problem is indeed EXERCISE and not a simple pill they can pop once a day.
The effect is two-fold. You treat the underlying cause, and this will ameliorate the presenting complaints over time. Two birds, one stone, right? It is much better than managing ONLY the complaint with a drug and dismissing the true problem.
Exercise. It works. It's cost-effective. It's simple.
Write it. Sign it. Tear it. Give it.
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