Dr Norman Swan
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238 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Dr Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it also has off-target effects because that same chemical messenger has effects in the brain and elsewhere.
So you get side effects and you can also get cancer of the skin as a result of it.
So
People are playing with fire here.
And what Four Corners has discovered is it's really easy to get a prescription from a registered doctor.
And what we did was we actually went to a clinic which offers telehealth consultations.
Rachel Carbonell, our researcher, did this, where they had a peptide therapy consultation.
That's how it was advertised.
And Rachel quite easily ended up with a prescription for four peptides and a bill for nearly $1,200 if she wanted to fulfill the prescription.
I did.
Well, the report that Rachel got, I think it just had Rachel's first name on it.
It had no doctor's signature and no doctor's name on it.
And Cathy Samaras felt that this was almost like a legal document to protect the doctor and the clinic.
And she was concerned about...
some of the growth hormone effects that the peptides might have.
Well, they said that they followed the guidelines, that they felt they were within the law.
And we particularly asked them on their online advertising, wasn't that advertising an unapproved product, which they're not allowed to do?
They denied that.
However, after we had made contact with them, they removed that offer of that consultation and renamed it on their website.
Well, she was concerned.
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