Patient requests for specific medications are becoming a routine part of clinical conversations, especially in primary care. General practitioners report receiving these requests about once per day on average, while specialists encounter them every two to three days. Many physicians also say these requests have increased over the past year, with medications related to weight management standing out as a major driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Patient requests for specific medications are becoming a routine part of clinical conversations, especially in primary care. General practitioners report receiving these requests about once per day on average, while specialists encounter them every two to three days. Many physicians also say these requests have increased over the past year, with medications related to weight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,16,17,18,19],"tags":[108,112,28,105,110,102,111,106,107,41,109],"country-icon":[45,44],"class_list":["post-8301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-survey-data","category-survey-data-canada","category-survey-data-usa","category-topical-data","category-topical-data-canada","category-topical-data-usa","tag-general-practitioners","tag-healthcare-trends","tag-infographic","tag-medication-requests","tag-patient-engagement","tag-patient-requests","tag-physician-insights","tag-prescribing-behavior","tag-primary-care","tag-specialists","tag-weight-management","country-icon-canada","country-icon-united-states"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n