KFF piece on telehealth GLP-1s, medication errors piling up fast
Posted by tiredmira in Research & News - 1 points, 1 comments.
KFF Health News has a rundown on how telehealth GLP-1 prescribing has exploded alongside the meds themselves, and so have the medication errors tied to it. Basically a deep dive on what happens when access scales faster than oversight, which is kind of the story I keep coming back to with these companies.
The thing that caught my eye was the framing around safety and compounding, not just the usual access debate. I have been tracking my own CGM and tirz numbers for months, and the providers who actually look at your data versus the ones who just push refills feel like two different worlds. The article made me wonder how much of the "errors" are patient error because nobody is coaching dosing, versus actual prescriber sloppiness.
Anyone here noticed a real difference between a clinic that monitors bloodwork and one of these cash pay telehealth setups? 😅
Comments
- robin589: Yeah the piece hit me too, and honestly it tracks with what i've been piecing together from lurking here. The providers that ask for bloodwork and actually look at it versus the ones that just send a script every month are night and day. My own cgm stuff only made sense once someone walked me through the numbers, before that i was just guessing. The patient error angle feels real though, because nobody explains how to handle a missed dose or when to actually titrate up, you're just told to. Tha
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