Skip to the reading The care handbook Physician-led peptide therapy Read at your own pace. Keep a question in the margin. What is it? Who leads care? What happens? What will I pay? What could go wrong? How do I decide? The reading desk Read the source that answers your question The further-reading desk for the whole handbook. Take questions that leave room for an honest answer Read the source that answers your question Keep the questions you want to take with you Use each source for the job it can do Use a board record to check a person or pharmacy. Use medicine information to check the product claim. Use government coverage information to ask about a payment route. A source can answer a narrow question without settling your whole decision. Ask the person treating you to connect the information to your own concern. Legal and price answers in this handbook reflect September 26, 2026; use the linked government pages to check for updates. Advice about visits and checking doctors was reviewed September 17, 2026. Where a passage gives a later check date, use that date to judge how old its information is. For an ordinary pharmacy, begin with the state licence search below. If the maker calls itself a 503B outsourcing facility, it is a site registered with FDA to make sterile batches, meaning batches free from living germs. Use FDA’s facility list as well; it does not include state pharmacy board actions. Checking a doctor Open the medical-board directory Read what a medical board record can show Checking a pharmacy Find the state pharmacy licence search Check FDA’s list of registered 503B medicine makers Understanding the medicine Read FDA’s answers about compounding Read FDA’s concerns about compounded weight medicines Check FDA’s account of shortages and copy restrictions Open the semaglutide (Wegovy) medicine label Open the tirzepatide (Mounjaro) medicine label Read why a drug-list number does not prove approval Search FDA’s warning letters by company name Understanding the visit Read the medical boards’ policy on remote care Read the boards’ guidance on treatment menus Reading the payment terms Read the Medicare Bridge overview Read the Bridge eligibility and product details Check the government cash-offer directory Getting help and reporting concerns Read MedlinePlus on severe allergic reactions Find FDA’s MedWatch reporting service Read a record with its limits An FDA warning letter says what the agency believed was wrong when it wrote to a company. It is not a final ruling, and later replies or action can change the situation. Use the warning-letter search above to look up the company and check for a later response or a letter closing the matter. Advice from medical boards explains what proper care involves. The rules with legal force depend on the state. Carry this thought Match the source to the question, then check its date and limits. Read the board’s record for your doctor Take questions that leave room for an honest answer This is a reading guide for patients; it offers neither clinical care nor medicines. Chapter map Further reading Your notebook Read as text