Medical
Consultations
For most questions, I can offer you thoughtful, evidence-based medical advice and I can prescribe you medications to help with treatment.
Smoking
Cessation
We can go over different strategies and pharmacologic options to help you quit smoking.
(Service Price: $100)
Service Price: $100
Starting Oral Contraceptives
If you have not previously used oral contraceptives and are interested in starting oral contraceptives, we can discuss the various oral medications available on the market.
(Service Price: $100)
Service Price: $100
Travel
Consultations
Planning a trip? I can provide medical advice and prescribe prophylactic medications as well as vaccines. I’ll conduct research both on the region where you’ll be traveling and the infectious diseases & pathogens you may encounter, from malaria and yellow fever, to Japanese encephalitis and typhoid.
(Service Price: $150)
Service Price: $150
House Calls
If you live in or around San Diego County, I am able to provide a house-call and conduct an in person exam, consultation and prescribe medications. I may or may not utilize bedside ultrasonography in my evaluation, depending on your medical questions and medical history. I can also perform certain simple bedside procedures such as laceration repairs and abscess incision and drainage.
(Eventually I want to be able to provide IV infusion services…)
(Service Price: $500)
Service Price $500
I am an ER doctor and am comfortable offering treatment to all ages (pediatrics to geriatrics), all genders including non-binary individuals, and pregnant persons.
I’m able to prescribe most medications but there are a few important exceptions:
- No Controlled Substances – it is illegal on telemedicine to prescribe controlled substances such as benzodiazepines (e.g. Xanax) and opioids (e.g. Norco).
- No sleeping medications for insomnia such as Ambien or Trazodone. We can talk about sleep hygiene and discuss how to use over the counter sleeping medications, but I cannot prescribe prescription sleeping medications.
- New Psychiatric medications – I generally will not initiate a new psychiatric medication which includes SSRIs such as Prozac, SNRIs, buspirone, bupropion, “mood stabilizers” such as lithium or Depakote, antipsychotics, and tricyclic antidepressants. If you are currently taking these medications and simply need a refill, you must provide proof of your previous prescription before I refill your prescription.
- Neuropathic Pain Medications such gabapentin: I generally will not initiate new neuropathic pain medications. If you are currently taking these medications and simply need a refill, you must provide proof of your previous prescription before I refill your prescription
Who is this Doctor?
I’m Michael Griesinger, MD an emergency physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of California.
I am an ABEM (American Board of Emergency Medicine) certified Emergency Medicine Physician.
I graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and completed my residency training at the Emergency Medicine residency program of the State of University of New York at Downstate and Kings County Hospital in central Brooklyn.
I am also fellowship trained in Emergency Ultrasonography by Kaiser Permanente of San Diego.
I continue to practice as an emergency medicine provider in Southern California and am now providing telemedicine consultations to all residents in the State of California.
