Getting those and many other prescription drugs is quick and easy on the Internet. Technology and patients' rights at their best, some say. But it's a potential prescription for danger, charge many in the medical community, including Dr. Shawn Griffin of St. Joseph's Comprehensive Family Care Center. You really have no relationship with the person who is prescribing you this drug, he or she has never set eyes on you, and you're letting them take your health into their hands. I don't see that that's worth the convenience.
Internet sites abound offering prescription drugs.
Finding them takes a search engine just seconds. There are two basic types of Internet sites that sell prescription drugs. Some operate in much the same way as mail-order prescription companies. A patient faxes or sends in a prescription from his or her doctor and receives the medicine. Then there are the sites that doctors and pharmacists find troubling.