{"id":175091,"date":"2025-09-28T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175091\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:04:10","slug":"local-gp-calls-out-livestreams-allegedly-selling-weight-loss-medication-without-proper-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175091\/","title":{"rendered":"Local GP calls out livestreams allegedly selling weight loss medication without proper procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Malaysian healthcare worker recently shared her concerns about weight loss medications being sold on social media livestreams, criticising the sellers for alleged lack of proper procedures when promoting these products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo unprofessional! Before even starting weight loss medication, you need to see the patient, consult them, and run basic blood tests first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot everything is just about sales, seriously \u2014 this isn\u2019t how it\u2019s supposed to be, auctioning off medicines on livestreams. Are you a clinic or just a seller of slimming pills? It\u2019s disgraceful!\u201d she stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@meroshana\/post\/DO-VslYE-u2?xmt=AQF0rk75pBavlj35TvwWtaHEZx8NCON3FHeH07CKNl12SQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Threads post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Netizens agreed with the general practitioner\u2019s views, emphasising how some healthcare establishments prioritise sales over proper protocols, especially when other people\u2019s health is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a fellow GP too, and it feels like these people are bringing themselves so low just to make sales! One person does it, and others blindly follow!\u201d a user remarked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral practitioners nowadays only care about sales, with certain medical officers sometimes doing free consultations on livestreams. Back then, 10 to 20 years ago, even advertisements were not allowed,\u201d alleged another user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been going on for months. The workaround is they do consultations via WhatsApp,\u201d claimed another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they are promoting the medication on a livestream without selling, then it is fine. But selling it without proper consultation and delivering the medication by post \u2014 what happened to patient safety? Did they forget about the Hippocratic Oath?\u201d commented another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Malaysian healthcare worker recently shared her concerns about weight loss medications being sold on social media livestreams,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490,98821],"class_list":{"0":"post-175091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-weight-loss-medications"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}