Forty-five of 49 telehealth sites prescribed a GLP-1 to a fake patient based on a web form and an upper-body photo. The prescription requirement doesn’t exist in practice. Given a benign 20-year safety record and a new FDA pathway for OTC drugs that need screening, it may be time to stop pretending otherwise.

Happy to discuss healthcare growth, primary care’s decline, consumer health tech, and self-driving cars with the very well-informed Scott Becker, in this episode of Becker’s Healthcare Podcast.