The Benefits Of Prescribing Medicine On The Internet

If physicians are not deceptive, courts should still not allow all types of medication to be to be prescribed over the internet. Although the physician may not be trying to deceive his client, he or she might want to get medication they should not be allowed to have. As mentioned in the article, the website had general information about the drugs, their side effects, online questionnaires, and the individuals answered them to sought the medicine they wanted. This can result in great consequences for the parties and the clients. If they start getting a drug just for an external benefit, they made get addicted to the drug. It is not as if the physicians can detect if the clients are putting in the correct information about their medical history. If they cannot detect such a lie, imagine how many people would try to get prescribed to medication online so that they can get their hands to medicine hard to attain in person. The practice of prescribing certain medications via the internet would definitely reach to a point that it “shocks the conscience” of the court. It depends on the side effects of the medicine that is being prescribed online. However, I am pretty …show more content…
However, general doctor visits over the phone are okay. The only thing to be noted is that one must have met this general doctor in person before talking over the phone could be okay. There are many benefits to general doctor visits over the phone. My Mother is a heart patient who takes medicine daily, and sometimes the nurse/doctor does call her to see how she is feeling. I believe that this is perfectly okay because it cuts back on the travel my Mother would have to take in order to reach the doctor. I do see issues regarding offering therapy over the internet. I may be a bit paranoid, but I would not trust therapy over just the internet. I think therapy should be left to something involving interpersonal communication for