Among the many topics discussed, one of the suggestions that found the most support was to encourage physicians to actually note the diagnosis of "obesity" in their charts. As many readers may know, obesity has long been considered a disease by the World Health Organisation and in fact has its own code in the International Classification of Diseases 9 system (ICD9): 278.
(Just to confuse things, the numbers for obesity in ICD 10 are E65-E68)
The idea here is that unless physicians actually begin recording the diagnosis of "obesity" in their notes, charts and other records, they will not address obesity with the attention it deserves.
Thus, as one attendee commented, "No doctor would ever dream of leaving out a mention of diabetes,
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