Explainer//5 min
Ozempic or Wegovy: why you got the one you got
Ozempic and Wegovy contain the same drug. Which one lands in your hand is decided almost entirely by your insurance plan and your diagnosis code — not by your body.
The Business
Telehealth
The subscription clinics that now write a large share of American prescriptions.
4 pieces
News//4 min
Buying direct: the new cash prices
Both makers now sell straight to patients, below list, outside the insurance machinery. For the uninsured it is the biggest practical change in years — and it quietly reprices the entire gray market.
Guide//5 min
Judging a compounded source
There is a real difference between a licensed 503A pharmacy with a prescriber behind it and a website selling vials labelled 'not for human consumption'. Most people cannot tell them apart, and the marketing is designed that way.
Deep Dive//5 min
Inside the telehealth GLP-1 boom
A monthly fee, a fifteen-question form, and a prescription in under ten minutes. Some of these services provide genuinely good care. Distinguishing them from the ones selling access is harder than it should be.
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On The Jab
The
GLP‑1
Handbook
Dr. Nick Robertson
MD
The book · 14 chapters
The GLP-1 Handbook
Everything I tell my own patients before their first injection. 214 pages of what actually matters in the first year — dosing, side effects, food, muscle, cost, and the part nobody prepares you for: maintenance.
$4Less than your morning coffee.
Priced at four dollars because it should be affordable to everyone taking these drugs — not because it's worth four dollars. No upsell, no course, no supplement line.