About My Weight Doctor
For over 15 years, the staff at My Weight Doctor® has helped thousands of people just like you realize their dreams. Our Centers are staffed only with medical professionals who care about you, your weight loss and your health. They will tell you about our unique and individual weight loss programs, why they work, the fees and how to get started.
Over the years we've developed complete and effective programs that address both the short term weight loss and the long term weight management needs of our patients. We have continuously met the changing needs of an overweight population without resorting to fad diets or gimmicks. Our programs feature one-on-one personal medical supervision, nutritional guidance, moderate exercise, and the use of various time-tested prescription diet medications. We pride ourselves on having an extremely high customer satisfaction rate.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to empower individuals who wish to lose weight and improve their health with the knowledge and motivation to transform into the person they deserve to be. We do this by providing modern medicine’s best products and services from industry leaders that share core values of honesty and integrity.
Our Purpose
My Weight Doctor® is a practice of licensed physicians and other healthcare professionals who specialize in treating obesity, overweight and related disorders. Our purpose is to establish and maintain high standards of quality care while delivering on our core promises.
As providers of high quality healthcare, we see the effects of obesity on our patients’ health on a daily basis, and we are determined to help them enjoy a higher quality of life. Our services and associated products are an important part of the equation.
My Weight Doctor® upholds the principle of exemplary service in the provision of patient care and customer service. We accept accountability for the fulfillment of our mission, consistent with our organizational ethics statement, our compliance program, and supporting policies, as well as all applicable laws and regulations.
Our Promise
We provide impartial access to health care, regardless of race, creed, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, physical impairments or religious preference. We treat all patients with dignity, respect, and courtesy. Patients and their families will be involved in decisions regarding their care to the extent that this is practical and possible. We will inform patients about therapeutic alternatives and the risks associated with the care they are seeking.
Best Practices & The Patient Bill of Rights
- Patients have the right to be treated with dignity and respect at all times.
- Patients have the right to know of treatment options and degree of realistic outcomes of various options.
- Patients have the right to know that being overweight or obese is a serious disease with known health risks.
- Patients have the right to know that obesity is a chronic health disease requiring personal effort over many years and probably lifelong changes in diet, exercise and behavior.
- Patients have the right to know that rapid weight loss may cause serious health problems.
- Patients have the right to know the anticipated cost and duration of services.
- Patients have the right to know the provider’s qualification.
- Providers have a duty to maintain currency with obesity research and best practices appropriate to their specific profession.
- Providers have a duty to determine each patient’s medical and psychological condition prior to provision of services.
- Providers have a duty to counsel each patient about realistic weight loss goals, the timelines to reach those goals and the diet, exercise and behavioral changes necessary to maintain weight loss and achieve associated health benefits.
- Providers shall always provide for the best interests of the patient and will not recommend or provide products or services which are not reasonably expected to be effective without informing the patient that they are participating in an experimental program and obtaining their informed consent.
- Providers shall inform patients of this Bill of Rights and their adherence to it.
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