The news today? Cardiologists taking semaglutide, the outdated Doctor’s Bag and Pope’s illness ‘clinically complex’

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“We will sit around at dinner and halfway through the meal, we will simultaneously push our plates away. We look at each other and laugh and say, ‘You, too?’”

Dr Charles Gibson, a Harvard University cardiologist, is talking about medication and the changes resulting in the physiques of his fellow specialists when he turns up to medical conferences.

There are no studies documenting the proportion of doctors taking semaglutide to control their weight, The New York Times reports.