Attorney General Concerned About HRC Medical’s Former Patients

By Jennifer KrausConsumer Investigator

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- The state Attorney General said he's prepared to contact every patient in Tennessee who got hormone replacement therapy from Nashville-based HRC Medical.

This comes as the Attorney General has gone to court to shut down the entire company and after NewsChannel 5 Investigates first exposed problems with HRC's hormone therapy nearly a year ago. The Attorney General is so concerned that he wants every patient who went to the HRC clinic here in Nashville and those in Memphis and Knoxville to talk with their primary care physicians about the possible long term health problems they could face including endometrial cancer and breast cancer.

Read the lawsuit filed against HRC Medical

Former HRC patient Susan Moerschel told NewsChannel 5 Investigates, "It's frightening."

Moerschel, who underwent hormone replacement therapy at HRC for a year, was stunned to hear now that the state attorney general has gone to court to shut down HRC Medical in order to "protect consumers."

The 160-page complaint filed Monday accuses HRC and its owners of running the company in a "persistently fraudulent manner" and repeatedly making "false and misleading statements" about its heavily promoted hormone replacement therapy.

The complaint also confirmed what NewsChannel 5 Investigates first reported back in November of last year, that HRC gave patients substantially more testosterone than they needed.

"I kinda grew a moustache," Susan Moerschel shared.

She said she experienced what she described as extreme side effects from the therapy. She grew facial hair and her menopause symptoms went away.

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Attorney General Concerned About HRC Medical’s Former Patients