Cyberspace Consultation - Drugs Online
By: Antony

If on a lazy rainy day you can order for a Pizza on phone from the cozines of your bed you can punch in a few keys on your bedside P.C. and get Viagra delivered at your doorstep as well. Shopping for prescription drugs at a legitimate online site is not much different from buying books or sporting goods over the Internet, although you do need your doctor's permission.

At most sites, customers provide some basic information about themselves, along with details on the drug prescription they want filled. Patients can have their doctor’s phone or fax in the prescription, or ask the site to contact their doctor directly. Prescriptions can also be transferred online by simply asking the site to call your hometown pharmacy.

Industry and consumer studies show that, compared with filling prescriptions at the corner drug store, ordering drugs online can cut costs considerably. The advantage of Internet prescriptions is convenience. With a few keystrokes on the computer, prescriptions are filled and delivered by mail or can be picked up at a local pharmacy. Internet prescriptions are especially useful for seniors and people with disabilities who may have difficulty leaving the house.

Most sites also provide information on how drugs will interact with others and when they should be taken, as well as a substantial amount of material on illnesses and health issues.

What's more, many sites allow you to email a pharmacist who will generally respond privately and within 24 hours. Although on line pharmacy has brought relief to the old and infirm and those settled in remote areas where chemists shops are non-existent it has its own risks.

The proliferation of Internet prescriptions is sounding alarm bells for doctors, pharmacists and health authorities nationwide because of a lack of standards -- even illegal practices -- at some Web sites. , a California Web site was dispensing hundreds of Viagra prescriptions per week to people who filled out brief medical questionnaires but never saw a doctor. The patients' responses were supposedly forwarded to a doctor for prescription approval, but health authorities later discovered the "doctor" was actually a retired veterinarian in Mexico. The site has since been closed.

Nevertheless, if you do adopt precaution, for convenience sake you could shop online for drugs. Stay away from sites that offer to prescribe medicine if you just have to answer a few questions or undergo what he calls a "cyberspace consultation. Use a Web site affiliated with a pharmacy. If a site makes claims or promises that you don't need a prescription or that their doctors will view your comments or questionnaire, that's a definite warning sign to avoid those sites.

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