Are online pharmacies good for your patients—and for you?
Rogue Viagra peddlers aside, Internet drugstores will have a place in your medical practice, and not just as amazon.coms for pills. They're one more sign that everything in health care is converging electronically
Doctors and the Web
Are online pharmacies good for your patientsand for you?
Rogue Viagra peddlers aside, Internet drugstores will have a place in your medical practice, and not just as amazon.coms for pills. They're one more sign that everything in health care is converging electronically.
By Robert Lowes
Midwest Editor
If you've just gotten used to having patients walk into your office brandishing printouts from health care Web sites about how you should treat their hypertension and allergies, brace yourself for the next phase of the Internet revolution. Now patients can get medicines for these and other conditions from online pharmaciesand save a few dollars in the process.
Should that make any difference to you?
In some respects, doctors are bystanders when it comes to online pharmacies. A patient can fill a prescription wherever he wants, and if he goes the dot-com route, that's his business. But physicians should be prepared to advise patients about such pharmacies, and which onesif anywould serve them best.
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