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> TRT is no longer limited to men with clinical hypogonadism. Men’s health clinics that advertise on social media, TV, and radio will prescribe to anyone who co
by mise_en_place 10mo ago
> TRT is no longer limited to men with clinical hypogonadism. Men’s health clinics that advertise on social media, TV, and radio will prescribe to anyone who contacts them (and pays cash for the prescription and gear). In some surveys of patients on TRT, 1/4 of patients didn’t even have testosterone levels measured prior to initiation of TRT.
That's hugely problematic if true. They should be investigated and if found of wrongdoing, have their medical licenses revoked.
- SpicyLemonZest 10mo agoI dunno. It seems straightforwardly analogous to the fake medical marijuana clinics you see in places where recreational use isn't legal, or the countless online pharmacies with doctors on retainer to prescribe Ozempic and Viagra. It's not how I would design the medical system if I were in charge, but these aren't addictive substances like opioids.
- Aurornis 10mo agoTestosterone induces physical dependency which can be irreversible when taken for prolonged periods. I don’t think it’s analogous at all to medical marijuana.
- SpicyLemonZest 10mo agoInteresting. I'm surprised I didn't know that and have to agree that makes the analogy inapplicable.
- Aurornis 10mo agoIt’s true. You can even go on Reddit and find anecdotes and guides about which clinics to call and what to say to get prescribed with minimal hassle. Some of the clinics were even prescribing anabolic steroids intended for terminal cancer patients. If you want to read about something even crazier, look up the services that were started during COVID to be prescription mills for Adderall or Xanax. The relaxed COVID prescribing rules allowed telehealth providers to give schedule II prescriptions to new patients remotely, so services were created to advertise on TikTok and give prescriptions for a monthly fee. The FDA cracked down on these, though. There’s even a famous story of a whistleblower who worked at one of these clinics and got reprimanded for not prescribing Adderall enough. There was a leaked memo where they pushed providers to prescribe Adderall over other options because their data showed the highest customer retention rate that way.
- jstummbillig 10mo agoDid you use a LLM to write these comments?
- Aurornis 10mo agoI do not. I’m typing on my phone from a waiting room. I’d probably have fewer incorrect words and awkward sentences if I did.
- jstummbillig 10mo agoI see. I got curious because of the correct usage of ’ (instead of the common ')
- K0balt 10mo agoArgh. It’s so strange to be ridiculed and have your ideas devalued just because you know how to use punctuation marks. I have 20 year old blog posts with hundreds of comments accusing me of using AI. I understand people being suspicious, but it’s beyond annoying when it becomes an entire personality online, as it has for many persons. How about we go back to valuing ideas, regardless of their origins, if they deliver insight, value, or joy? I don’t care if someone writes something good or if the idea was stolen from something they read, or if a machine made it for them, unless the value proposition is their personal capacity for original prose. AI gotchaism is becoming as least as tiring as the droll, tone deaf creations of LLMs.
- jstummbillig 10mo agoI hope you are not writing this in reference to my question, because this does not in any way capture the feelings or thoughts I had while asking. Just some mild curiosity living in a strange new world. In case this is not obvious: I am aware that you could just not answer honestly. If I thought this was a critical issue and that you were likely to be dishonest about it, I would not have asked to begin with.