Read the consent form first
Plain-language readings of consent forms, device labeling and regulator notices for Tribeca readers.
Each page starts from the primary document and strips it down to what it asks of you.
Leave with a short list of questions to bring to your clinician.
Holding a consent form, a product label or a regulator notice in Tribeca and unsure what it asks of you? Turn it into short steps here.
Start with the document, not the menu. Find the consent form, the product labeling and any regulator notice that applies. Then decide what to ask.
The paperwork behind each of the five services
Five service areas have their own pages. Each one reads the paperwork around the service and ends with questions for a clinician.
- Dermal fillers: read the product labeling and the consent form ahead of the appointment.
- IV vitamin therapy: ask for every ingredient in the drip and who signs off on it.
- Botox and neurotoxins: get the brand name and the consent form's wording on it.
- Hormone replacement therapy: ask what is being measured and why.
- Medical weight loss: ask whether a medication is an approved product or a compounded one.
On that last point, read the FDA's questions and answers on drug compounding. Note which questions it answers about compounded drugs and what that means for a patient.
Read documents, not the clinic's voice
Service names here match the ones Apollo House uses. That Tribeca practice, a medical spa and longevity practice, did not write these pages and they do not speak for it. They read the documents a patient is handed and say what each one asks of the patient.
Open the professional society's overview of medical spa safety resources. List the questions it raises and check each one against your own paperwork.
List the consent form lines you cannot explain
Choose the service page that fits your question. Write down every line of the consent form you do not understand, and bring that list to your appointment.
Read first. Sign second.