Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter warns against hormone clinics using undertrained staff and infrequent pellet insertions every four months. Proper training, education, and follow-up matter for safe, effective care. Most primary care doctors don't offer it, leaving patients to hunt for qualified clinics.
It's an education piece. We want to educate people on how to do this right and that it does make a huge difference.
We have basic nurses that are doing hormone replacement therapies and it's not very well done. And I think a lot of communities have that going on. You have a wellness clinic and it's not like your clinic, it's not like my clinic. We're not investing a lot of time and effort into training and doing this the right way. It's kind of a, you know, a pellet mill, so to speak. And so people come in and get their pellets every four months and that's it. I think that can lead to problems, especially if we're not careful. And so for us, it's an education piece. We want to educate people on how to do this right and that it does make a huge difference. I wouldn't say that we're getting more buy in from the local primary care physicians, but a lot of them aren't willing to do it for their patients either. So patients have been searching for ways to feel better and sometimes they don't find the right clinic for sure.
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