One physician, board-certified in both. Body composition, liver scan, and blood work done here in the office — not referred out.
What brings you in?
Four quick questions, about thirty seconds. No account, no card, no medical history.
Would you rather just talk to someone? (508) 820-8332
Treating weight is easy to start and hard to do safely alone.
When weight moves, so do your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol — sometimes within weeks. Someone has to be watching those numbers.
What primary care gives it: the monitoring, and the authority to change the other medications while the weight comes off.
Half of what a primary care doctor manages, weight is quietly causing.
Blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, fatty liver, sleep apnea, aching knees. Often not separate problems — one shared cause nobody is treating.
What obesity medicine gives it: a way to treat that cause, so the rest can finally improve instead of being managed forever.
Visits may be separate. The physician and the chart never are.
Nobody owes us a review. When a patient sits down and describes their own experience, it helps the next person work out whether this is the right office for them — and it tells us what we're actually getting right. We're grateful for every one.
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Losing 20 pounds is a very different result if 15 of them were muscle. You stand on the InBody for about sixty seconds and it separates you into fat, muscle, and water.
Every visit we watch two numbers move in opposite directions: fat mass down, skeletal muscle held. That is the part most GLP-1 programs never check — which is how people end up thinner and weaker at the same time.
Two patients, same weight, same age — one can carry twice the visceral fat and several times the cardiometabolic risk. A scale shows them as identical.
◆ InBody — in house
Your liver enzymes can be perfectly normal while fat accumulates in the tissue. Most people who have it have never been told.
FibroScan is a painless probe on your right side. In about ten minutes it gives two numbers: how much fat is in your liver (CAP) and how stiff the tissue has become (kPa). Most practices refer you to a hospital for this. We do it here.
Liver fat responds to weight loss faster than almost anything else we track — which makes it one of the most encouraging numbers to watch move.
◆ FibroScan — in house
Metabolic syndrome is five findings that travel together — waist size, blood pressure, blood sugar, triglycerides, and HDL cholesterol. Three of the five is the diagnosis, and it multiplies your risk of diabetes and heart disease.
We measure all five in this office. No separate lab trip, no second appointment to hear the results.
This is the part that only works when your weight doctor is also your primary care doctor. As the numbers improve, doses often need to come down — and we're the ones who can taper them, rather than sending you to another doctor to agree.
◆ Blood draw — in house
Yonghyun Lee, MD — primary care internist and Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. English and Korean.
That pairing is the entire point of this practice. It is what lets one person read your FibroScan, interpret your labs, adjust your blood pressure medication, and manage your weight — in one office, against a single chart.
One physician. One chart. One set of numbers that all move together.
Lincoln Medical Center, Framingham, MA 01702
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Answer four quick questions and the office will call you back — usually within one business day. Your first visit takes a full baseline: body composition, liver, and labs, before anything is prescribed.
So we know whether to hold a near-term slot for you.
Pick as many as apply. This tells us how to run your first visit.
A first visit usually needs to be in person — that is when we take the baseline measurements. Follow-ups can be either.
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Someone from the office will call you back, usually within one business day. If you'd rather not wait, the front desk is on (508) 820-8332.
