Regular ArticlePhysician Attitudes toward Managing Obesity: Differences among Six Specialty Groups☆,☆☆
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Portions of these data have been presented at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity meeting, Hampton, Virginia, March 1992; at the Society of Behavioral Medicine meeting, New York, New York, March 1992; and at the International Congress of Health Psychology, Tokyo, Japan, July 1993. This research was funded by a grant from Sandoz Nutrition, initiated by the first author while she was on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Medicine.
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