That's hugely problematic if true. They should be investigated and if found of wrongdoing, have their medical licenses revoked.
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.
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.
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.
> This patient expressed no gender dysphoria, but he got hormones, too. I asked the doctor what protocol he was following, but I never got a straight answer.
I don’t think it’s analogous at all to medical marijuana.