I Can’t Believe I Have to Keep Defending Cerebral

... but the Wall Street Journal does some really irresponsible reporting, so here we are.

Look, I want to hate Cerebral just like the rest of you. What person above the age of 40 can tolerate TikTok ads? Who among us thinks that recently departed C-level Impact Officer Simone Biles has the medical pedigree to be a spokesperson for the future of psychiatry? Not this navel-gazing physician-journalist obsessed with appropriate regulatory standards, thank you very much. I’ve had to defend Cerebral—sorta, kinda—before, and I’d rather not have to do it again.

I’m a physician¹ for heaven’s sake. I just wanna be able to prescribe stimulant medications for people with honest-to-goodness ADHD². Now I can barely send a stimulant script in without having to send it into five pharmacies in rapid sequence, because everyone is out of mixed amphetamine salts, methylphenidate, dexmethylphenidate, dextroamphetamine, etc. etc. etc. It’s really bad out there!

I would dearly love to be able to casually hate on dumb tele-health companies just as much as the next hyper-expert in bespoke and highly u…