Dr. David D Odom, MD

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Mon - Fri:	9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Primary: Anesthesiologist

Sub-Specialty: General

Additional Specialties: Endocrinologist (Diabetes & Hormones Specialist), Anesthesiology

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Fax: (603) 949-8116

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Van Horn Industrial Area, Windsor Industrial Park, Davis-Van Horn

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Address: 3509 International St Ste 100, Fairbanks, AK 99701

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Dr. David D Odom, MD

General Practitioners

Medical Weight Loss
One corollary to dealing with patient desires to become more healthy is the treatment of the current epidemic of obesity [5]. I have practiced bariatric medicine [8] since 1995 including wide experience in the use of various weight loss medications.
Nutritional Counseling
Barrier #3. Phentermine has a tarnished reputation because of its structural relationship to amphetamines and because of inappropriate prescribing by a few “pill doctors”. Of course, the appropriate use of this medication is as one component within a program of behavior modification, nutritional counseling, and exercise recommendations. Physician contact and monitoring are vital [16].
Pediatric Care
● American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Drugs, Uses of Drugs Not Described in the Package Insert (Off-Label Uses), Pediatrics, July 2002, Vol. 110, No. 1, p. 181-183.
Emergency Care
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) in 1998 surveyed 471 hospital emergency departments for drug-related visits and 141 medical examiners in 42 metropolitan areas for drug-related deaths. The emergency department report covered 542,544 drug abuse episodes in hospital emergency rooms and 10,123 drug abuse-related deaths submitted by medical examiner reports. None of the scheduled anorectic agents met the minimum of 200 mentions needed to be included in the emergency department table listings for 1998.No Schedule III or IV weight loss drugs are mentioned in the top 60 drugs cited in the 10,123 deaths reported by medical examiners in the 1998 DAWN reports. Amphetamines and methamphetamines were reported in 884 (8.73%) and phenylpropanolamine in 30 (0.3%) of the fatal episodes.
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Ophthalmologists

Glaucoma
Barrier #2. Weight loss medication is held to a higher standard in defining the desired outcomes than are other medications. The view that obese people need ‘only to close their mouths’ has caused us to demand a higher standard for medication use in treating obesity than we do for treatments of any other chronic condition. We accept the fact that serum cholesterol values will rise following the cessation of statin therapy. We accept that intraocular pressure rises when pilocarpine treatment is stopped because we understand that glaucoma can be controlled but not cured. Even in the absence of a cure, patients and physicians still view ocular medication, hypotensive agents, a cholesterol-lowering medication, as valuable. All of these failures to cure a problem of dysregulation in human physiology are acceptable. But, obesity is the only analogous clinical situation where the failure of medication to achieve a cure is unacceptable [14].

Psychiatry
Albert Stunkard [26], Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, argued as early as 1982 that “appetite suppressants” act primarily by lowering the body weight set point and only secondarily by suppressing appetite. The evidence, he contends, does not support the development of tolerance to the anorectics. He concludes, regarding appetite suppressant medication, “use it on a chronic basis or not at all.” He later stated in his excellent, The Salmon Lecture-Some Perspectives on Human Obesity [27], the following...

Endocrinologist

Diabetes Care
● Wing, RR, et al. Benefits of Modest Weight Loss in Improving Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2011 Jul; 34(7): 1481–1486. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120182

Physical Therapists

Sports Medicine
The science of anti-aging medicine is truly multi-disciplinary. It is represented by advances in the fields of biochemistry, biology, and physiology. The field is enhanced by contributions from mind/body medicine, sports medicine, bi-identical hormone replacement therapy, and emerging medical technologies.

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