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DR. JOSEPH CHEMPLAVIL - "DOLLAR FOR POUND" PROGRAM NEWS
Creator of the “Dollar for Pound”
Weight-loss program and Dollarsfordieting.com
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If you lose you gain, if you gain you lose.
Hampton physician pays his patients to lose weight.
WAVY TV 10, 11.00 PM News, May 6, 2004.
Doctor charges $1 for a pound of fat
WVEC.Com / News for Hampton Roads,
Virginia / Virginia News, 5/11/2004
Cynthia Brooks Reporting
Lose Weight And Get Paid!
NewsChannel 3, WTKR, Health Watch, 5.00
PM NEWS
September 9, 2004
NEWSPAPER
Fat goes for a dollar a pound
A local doctor has taken a new approach to fighting obesity:
Put a price tag on every pound his patients lose or gain… Doctor’s
program could be a first.
Daily Press, Newport News,
Va., May 7, 2004
Doctor charges $1 for a pound of fat
The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Virginia, 5.12.04
Weight-loss strategy pays off
Frustrated doctor develops a reward system to help his patients shed pounds
Dr. Joseph Chemplavil launched the weight-loss program one year ago. Eighty
percent of the 150 patients who stayed in it lost weight.
Richmond-Times Dispatch, May 24, 2004
Gaining dollars for losing
pounds
Doctor pays patients to shed fat
Dr. Joseph Chemplavil of Hampton, Va., last year began offering
overweight patients $1 for each pound they shed. He has paid out more
than $1,000.
The Washington Times, May 16, 2004
The doctor who pays patients to lose weight
India Abroad June 4,2004
Dieting for dollars: Paying patients to lose
weight
Edmund’s Newsletter,
June 29, 2004
Dr. Joseph Chemplavil’s $-for-lb to patients
seeking weight loss
News India-Times, June 18, 2004
WEB SITES
“Weight-loss strategy pays off
Frustrated doctor develops a reward system to help his patients shed
pounds”
PINOY.MD, The Website for Filipino Doctors,
5/23/2004, Source: Times-Dispatch.com
“Weight-loss strategy pays off
Frustrated doctor develops a reward system to help his patients shed pounds”
EmpoweringMessages.com / news, May 14, 2004, Brooklyn,
NY
Paying patients to lose weight. It’s the
American way:
Monday, June 21, 2004
Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog: Money talks
Dieting for dollars: Paying patients to lose
weight
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American Doctor Pays Patients to Lose Weight.
Dr. Joseph Chemplavil of Virginia is examining the effects of cash incentives
on behavior.
June 27, 2004
Incwire.com, Entrepreneur News
MEDICAL MEDIA
Dieting for dollars: Paying
patients to lose weight
One way to get people to live healthier is to reward them for
their efforts.
That’s the decidedly pragmatic philosophy behind several initiatives
now being sponsored by insurance companies, employers and at least one
physician….
"The American way is money," says Joseph Chemplavil, MD, a cardiac
endocrinologist in Hampton, Va. "I have no problem bribing [patients]."
AMNews: June 28, 2004
Dieting for dollars:Paying
patients to lose weight – American Medical
News
Obesity Articles
June 23, 2004
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When all else fails,
try hard cash
After years of frustration, Joseph Chemplavil, MD has decided
to make losing weight a little more interesting.
In his Hampton, Va. Office, cardiovascular endocrinologist Joseph
Chemplavil, MD keeps a jar of cash for patients participating in his $4£
(Dollar for Pound) program. After spending the past 26 years encouraging
his overweight and obese patients to lose weight, Chemplavil has finally
come up with something that works and he hopes it will catch on: he pays
his patients to lose weight.
Endocrine today, August
2004
A A C E M E M B E R S I N T H E
S P O T L I G H T
AACE member Joseph Chemplavil, MD, has been getting a lot of media attention
recently for his “Dollar for Pound” program. His program has
been cited by multiple publications, including AMNews and Endocrine Today.
Dr Chemplavil, an endocrinologist located in Hampton, Virginia, has created
a cash incentive program in order to encourage patients to lose weight.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS
The First Messenger, Vol. 13, No. 4. Aug/Sept 2004
GLOBAL NEWS
Dollarert dietazni – egeszseges eletmod,
vastagabb penztarca…..
AMA MedNews
Dobos, L.
2004-06-21 17:53:36
Informed
InforMed Hirek 2004;2 InforMed, Hungary
Doctor Pays Patients per Pound of Weight
Loss, Charges for Gains
"The 'dollar for pound' program can be used by government agencies,
insurance companies and businesses."
Active Ontario / Ontario Actif, May 11 – June
11, 2004,
Condensed from the Knight-Ridder Tribune
Dieting for dollars: Paying patients to lose
weight
July 2004
Headline News
International Council on Active Aging (ICAA)
Dollars for pounds
"After 25 years of failing to help his patients lose weight, Virginia
physician Joseph
Chemplavil was so frustrated that he was willing to pay them out of his
pocket, reports The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch."
The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, May 21, 2004
“Hampton, Va., Doctor Pays Patients per
Pound of Weight Loss, Charges for Gains.”
Apria – resources – News, May
7, 2004, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Business News.
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guess who’s helping you get lean?
Besides enlisting support from family and friends for your weight-loss
efforts, check out how your doctor or employer might contribute. Here
are some proactive (and creative!) programs across the nation:
Joseph Chemplavil, M.D., in Hampton, Va., pays his overweight
patients $1 per pound lost after they enroll (for a $10 membership fee)
in his “Dollar for Pound” program.
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Get paid to lose Weight
Lose weight, earn cash
How monetary rewards can help you shed pounds….
Doctors are getting in on the act, too. To encourage his patients, Joseph
Chemplavil, M.D., of Hampton, Va., pays them a dollar for each pound they
take off within one year.
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