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Is anyone making money with these?
Of course ethics doesn't figure into it...
some of us HATE doctors due to what they've put us through so I really resent anyone deciding that me or anyone who tried to get help for themself is being unethical
I apologize for the remark about ethics...I was annoyed at the time because of the huge amount of spam I have been receiving from offshore pharmacies begging me to get their special generic viagra, vicodin and MS contin.
i understand the point about doctors, and personally I view the entire medical profession as just a big gaggle of babbling idiots. The drug companies are worse than criminal and so far beyond being unethical...they want to ban people like me from getting drugs for my wife from Canada, the exact same drugs available here in the US but at 10% of the price, because it cuts into their profits. Yet my wife is in pain and the stupid insurance company will not approve the drug because they believe their nurses assistant is smarter than my doctor.
My wife is alive now because we got her out of the care of the idiot doctors at Queen of Angeles in Los Angeles. My wife came so close to dying that she actually did get a peak at the "other side" and I literally had to go get her and haul her back. And I mean literally...
My advice to the world is let's stop being stupid with our diets and lack of exercise and insane health and dating habits. The way to live a long time is to be healthy, live a healthy lifestyle and remove the stress and bad from your life. Then you don't need drugs, doctors and insurance companies, and perhaps the 17% of the US economy that is now focused on these silly preventable ailments will drop and medical profession can be hurridly retrained to clean streets or something...although based upon most doctors I've met, I think they are not competent for even that task.
Um, sorry, didn't mean to get started. It's been a tough battle getting my wife back to health, and fighting the medical profession was not something I thought I had to confront to do it. I kind of expected medicine to be an ally, but in reality medicine is an enemy of life.
I'm a little more visionary. Tele-medicine is one of the waves of the future, and online pharmacies will be an evolved part of that trend.
Listening...
After the interview at pubcon, I'm all ears for your ideas Go60Guy!
And all of this spam recently has me checking out these viagra etc. affs...
I really would hate running a business of any kind in the US. We have had problems twice from US lawyers in the past alleging that some products we sold infringed their trademarks and patents. Of course, they couldn't take things further because we were in Hong Kong.
There is a lawsuit going on in the US which, if successfully could make all web site owners in the world liable for civil action for infringement of patents.
Back to the subject of online pharmacies. They are clearly illegal, no matter whether the medicines are being shipped from a third country, or that a coniving doctor signs fake prescription sheets for them afterwards.
It is no use of having yourself covered by the use of the correct language in your web site, and it is no defence for not knowing the law. You are deemed to know the law. The fact that you do not know that murder is a crime is not a defence. Unless you are sure that there are no prescription-only drugs involved, I would strong advise you not to go ahead.
They are clearly illegal,
Actually they are often quite legal. For example, by insurance company runs an online pharmacy of it's own from which it offers a steap discount on the co-insurance. Drugstore.com is an online pharmacy affiliated with rite aid and there are many canadian pharmacies which are very legal. And thank the gods and goddesses, as drugs are becoming so god-aweful expensive that it's becoming difficult to be able to afford them anymore.
Regarding traditional medicine, you can forget about it. Insurance companies drive the way medicine is practiced today, and one of the ways costs can be cut dramatically is through tele-medicine.
Blue Sheild of California already covers doctors visits online. Look for a lot more of this.
From the Miami Herald:
Joe Kilmer, Miami spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said that since a valid doctor-patient relationship didn't exist before ordering the Vicodin, the pharmacy, the doctor and the reporter were all violating the law....
When grey turns to white, you probably won't keep the money.
The pharmacy then goes to a physcian who it pays to make up a fake presciption for this person. The doctor would clearly not seen or contacted the person in any manner.
Although the pharmacy would have covered itself by this shady practice. Clearly the doctor and the pharmacy would have broken the law.
3 differences to the manual system:
- Prescriptions are written in bulk and could be less thourough.
- Doctor looses face-to-face experience and can't tell as easily how honest you are and can't qualify and ask.
- And finally it's hard to cehck it's really a doctor doing it.
I believe these were some of the points the DEA brought up.
SN
