The clinical trial showed a twenty percent reduction in heart attacks.
Alan Nafzger documents the pharmaceutical triumph that made British willpower officially optional
Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
The clinical trial showed a twenty percent reduction in heart attacks. The cultural trial, running simultaneously and without ethical oversight, showed an eighty percent increase in people saying they will start Monday. Britain has once again found a way to extract the minimum effort from a maximum medical breakthrough.
The Announcement
As Bohiney Magazine documents in its Wegovy coverage, doctors in London are prescribing the drug and patients are cancelling gym memberships with the confidence of people who have been given medical permission to do what they were going to do anyway. The gym cancellation rate is described as confident. This word is doing significant moral work.
The London Prat’s piece on farmers declaring war on Mounjaro provides the agricultural counterpoint: while consumers lose appetite in Islington, farmers in East Anglia watch their potato markets evaporate. This is what economists call a supply-demand adjustment. It is what the potato calls an existential event.
The Editorial Position
As an editor I must remain neutral. The NHS guidance on semaglutide is thorough and evidence-based. The evidence that the British public will use any pharmacological breakthrough to accelerate its pre-existing preference for minimal exertion is equally thorough and considerably older. We are a nation that invented the weekend and has been trying to extend it medically ever since.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/doctors-prescribe-wegovy-patients-cancel-gym/