Lilibet
Southern Oregon
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BBMAs I've stated before, during visits to Dr. Sievers, I paid to two separate accounts. My office visits was billed/paid to Dr. Sievers - and she was the listed owner. When ordering supplements - THAT WERE PRESCRIBED by Dr. Sievers, I was billed/paid to Restorative Health and Healing - Mark Sievers is the listed owner dating back to 1999. So, Mark is encouraging Dr. Sievers former patients to continue to purchase supplements "indefinitely". This is a continued revenue source for Mark. Dr. Sievers used the supplement site only as a source to purchase supplements that she prescribed and monitored! She would never advocate patients just ordering supplements without Doctor supervision. I won't purchase supplements from the site - knowing that Mark is making money from each purchase. Dr. Sievers had over 1,000 patients. The supplements would be a big income source - IMO.
Although I'm sure Dr. Sievers was firmly grounded ethically, and trying to provide supplements as a convenience to her patients, doing so can be a slippery slope according to the AMA ethics guidelines linked below. No doubt she was meticulous about following these guidelines, but MS clearly isn't respecting or following her intentions. I suppose since he isn't an M.D. he feels he can opportunistically market to her former patients. I wonder if they are his only customer base or if he is marketing to the general public too. I also wonder how many former patients are now getting their supplements elsewhere.
Personally, I feel uncomfortable when a doctor has things for sale, unless they make it clear that these items are available elsewhere, etc. as the AMA guidelines outline. But then again, I've never met a doctor like Dr. Sievers, so I might have felt differently with her.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/phy...-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion8063.page?