Tools & Resources

While there are many tools and resources out there, to cobble together all of the bits and pieces of information you'd need to help care for your overweight and obese patients may be a daunting task - especially since medical school likely didn't even give you guidance as to what you'd be looking for.

To help, my colleage Dr. Arya Sharma and I wrote, published and have freely distributed our book, Best Weight: A practical guide to office-based weight management.

The book's just over 100 pages, and an easy read. It's not meant to be an exhaustive tome that slowly takes you step by step through the pathophysiology of obesity and dryly explores the usual party lines of treatment. Instead it's the culmination of both Arya and my experiences with this terribly under serviced patient population and put plainly, it's the book I wish I had when I first opened my doors.

We didn't write the book to make money, we wrote it to try to help and I'm thrilled that by the good graces and generosity of our publisher, the Canadian Obesity Network, that our book is freely available for download in PDF format (the only catch there is you've got to join the network - membership however is free).