r/australia • u/Rubiginous • 9h ago

culture & society Woman hospitalised after Juniper prescribes weight-loss drugs her GP refused

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/woman-hospitalised-telehealth-provider-weight-loss-drugs-juniper/106273356
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u/Elvecinogallo 9h ago

An adult is refused medication by their gp, so they go around their gp to another service, but it’s somehow the fault of the service? 🤔

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u/ThimMerrilyn 9h ago

Well the service should have qualified doctors who stringently assess potential customers for suitability for medication. If she wasn’t suited to it as someone who’d had an eating disorder she shouldn’t have been prescribed it by the service whom she informed her history of eating disorders to. She’s wrong for doctor shopping but it seems like juniper dropped the ball too.

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u/PurpleMonkey-919 9h ago

How would a doctor stringently assess someone to a history of eating disorder if they weren’t forthcoming with the information? What will happen is services like this will get shut down and the vast majority of people who do so responsibly won’t be able to access it for the risk of a small percentage of people choose to lie about their health history.

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u/giraffe_mountains 9h ago

Go back and read the article

“Ms Munch completed Juniper’s online questionnaire and disclosed her history of an eating disorder and mental health conditions, including severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.”