It is also beginning to be prescribed by many of the subscription medication/doctor businesses that are springing up, powered by VC cash and looking to build strong forward flowing subscription businesses. Their model is:
- find areas that aren’t medically serious (speaking relatively, and in relation to life threatening - erectile dysfunction and male pattern baldness)
- run people through online questionnaires
- get an online subscription runner stamped by a doc on their payroll
- send out generic medications that they get cheap, package them nicely, and make bank on markup
- catch them on the next condition they roll along to
The last year I’ve seen a lot of them shifting into metformin (after finasteride and viagra/cialis) for weight loss
- find areas that aren’t medically serious (speaking relatively, and in relation to life threatening - erectile dysfunction and male pattern baldness)
- run people through online questionnaires
- get an online subscription runner stamped by a doc on their payroll
- send out generic medications that they get cheap, package them nicely, and make bank on markup
- catch them on the next condition they roll along to
The last year I’ve seen a lot of them shifting into metformin (after finasteride and viagra/cialis) for weight loss