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As a non-physician healthcare professional, is there any issue in using the term “functional medicine” rather than something such as a “functional practice”?

Dr. Amy Nett: No. I mean, I think you’re just asking how you want to refer to your practice, and...

An update on the online dispensary that will carry every supplement using the ADAPT program. Before this dispensary, did your virtual assistant store some inventory of Prescript-Assist MegaSpore? How did your office have some to ship since these aren’t available through Emerson or Natural Partners? How you feel about the Natural Partners online dispensary that patients can order through a practitioner website and P-script is Full Script? There’s now Wellevate, which is Emerson’s version of Full Script. A lot of these now, they’re coming.

Chris Kresser: We’re still moving forward with the supplement store. It’s going a little more slowly than we had hoped....

It’s a practice management question. QuickBooks—why do you have to use their payment processing instead of Stripe on MD HQ. I have a merchant account with a great DL I use in Office, and any distance payments are made through MD HQ. I don’t understand why you’d have to use QuickBooks to process payments when MD HQ creates invoices that patients can pay securely.

Chris Kresser: We have switched over to using MD HQ. The advantage to using QuickBooks was that everything was in...

Do you charge sales tax on supplements? I thought it was required in California at least, but another practitioner told me it isn’t if you’re prescribing the supplements.

Chris Kresser: So it depends on your setup. We don’t stock supplements in the office and so I don’t actually...

When I asked in the Facebook group they answered that the price jumped from $300 to $418 because you’d added a bunch of new markers.

Chris Kresser: Yeah, so that was through the, from the beginning of the year all the way through the end...