The Complete Guide to Modern Medical Weight Loss — South African Clinical Edition eBook

A comprehensive, practice-focused clinical guide for South African doctors delivering evidence-informed adult obesity care.

The Complete Guide to Modern Medical Weight Loss follows the patient journey from assessment and treatment selection through titration, adverse-effect management, plateaus, long-term maintenance, referral and service design. Written by South African GP and practice owner Dr Bianca Crook, it translates evidence, professional information and real-world clinical experience into usable consultation tools.

What the book covers

• Obesity as a chronic disease and assessment beyond BMI
• The first consultation, baseline investigations and treatment planning
• Nutrition, activity, behaviour, sleep and lean-mass preservation
• GLP-1 and dual GIP/GLP-1 treatment, including semaglutide and tirzepatide
• Broader anti-obesity pharmacotherapy and thoughtful medicine selection
• Titration, gastrointestinal adverse effects, abdominal red flags and poor response
• Pregnancy, perioperative care, acute illness and special populations
• Maintenance, weight recurrence and metabolic-bariatric surgery pathways
• Designing, pricing, governing and auditing a medical weight-management service

Designed for clinical use

The 37 clinically structured chapters include evidence-in-practice summaries, author practice pearls, common mistakes, clinical challenges, consultation-ready checklists, scripts and algorithms.

Who it is for

General practitioners, family physicians and other appropriately qualified healthcare professionals who provide obesity care or are developing a medical weight-management service. Readers outside South Africa should verify medicine registrations, prescribing requirements and professional rules in their own jurisdiction.

Digital format and delivery

• Reflowable EPUB 3 eBook
• Approximately 135,000 words with 33 described clinical illustrations
• Instant digital delivery after successful checkout
• eBook ISBN: 978-1-0665884-2-8
• First edition, 2026

Professional-use notice: This is an educational clinical reference. It does not replace current approved professional information, applicable guidelines, local policies, independent clinical judgement, patient-specific assessment or legal advice. It is not presented as an accredited CPD activity.