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Hopefully you mean type 2 or his doctor is committing malpractice.

This is from Semaglutide/Ozempic's official indication:

Use: Labeled Indications
Diabetes mellitus, type 2, treatment (Ozempic, Rybelsus): As an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus; risk reduction of major cardiovascular events (cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke) in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus and established cardiovascular disease (Ozempic only).
Weight management, chronic (Wegovy): As an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity for chronic weight management in adults with an initial BMI of 30 kg/m2 (obesity), or 27 kg/m2 (overweight) in the presence of at least one weight-related comorbid condition (eg, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia) and pediatric patients 12 years of age with an initial BMI at the 95th percentile standardized for age and sex (obesity).

And separately, as a contraindication:

- Diabetes mellitus: Do not use in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus or for the treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis; not a substitute for insulin.

This is all very intuitive if you know the medicine well. Type 2 works with this medicine because this increases insulin sensitivity in people that are insulin-resistant.

It cannot be used for type 1 diabetics because Type 1 is an insulin deficiency (usually auto-immune destruction of pancreatic cells responsible for making insulin). So taking a drug to make your body more sensitive to something it doesn't have is illogical.

More likely than your doctor committing malpractice is you not knowing what kind of diabetes your father actually has. Or maybe you made a typo. I did that already just writing this. Easy to do.