Athletic care notes
Peptide care, in plain words
Question notes · Telehealth & licences
Look for a way to talk through your goal, your health, and the plan being proposed.
Word to keep
A visit through telehealth uses video, a phone call or online messages. An in-person visit means being in the same room as the person providing your care.
A doctor may provide your care, or it may come from another health professional authorised to provide it.
Ask their job title and what their licence allows them to do.
Ask how to speak with the person seeing you, send your health history, and get questions answered after the visit.
Also ask how an examination or test would be arranged.
Ask what the first visit will include and whether anything needs to be sent ahead.
Also ask how follow-up care will work after you leave.
For telehealth, the person treating you needs permission to practise in your current state at the time of the visit, says the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
That permission may be a state licence or another form of legal permission. This guidance was checked on 26 September 2026.
Ask who will see you, what their full name is, and what permission lets them treat you in your state. Mention travel before the visit.
State medical boards oversee doctors’ licences. They publish licence records and public records of actions taken against doctors.
Use the board directory to reach the board for your state. Search the doctor’s name there and read the status shown.
Boards publish different amounts of detail. If no public action against a doctor is shown, that does not prove the doctor gives good care.
A state board of pharmacy holds the pharmacy’s licence record.
Ask for the pharmacy’s name so you know who will prepare and ship your medicine. On the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) page, choose your state and search for the pharmacy’s full name. If the pharmacy is based elsewhere, ask your state’s pharmacy board which licence it needs to serve you.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises avoiding an online pharmacy absent from the licensed-pharmacy list for your state.
Medicine must not be ordered based only on an online form with preset questions and answers. The Federation of State Medical Boards gave this advice, checked in September 2026.
Its advice also says you need a way to ask the person caring for you follow-up questions.
State medical boards form this federation. It gives advice that states can use when writing rules. The advice is not law by itself; your state’s rules apply.
The boards advise that the person caring for you must arrange any needed tests or refer you to someone who can do so. They also advise arranging an in-person examination when one is needed.
Bring a list of medicines, supplements, allergies, past health problems and your main goal. Ask what information is still missing.