Cyber-Prescriptions

Online pharmacies provide benefits to patients but also raise concerns

Published in Physician Law Weekly, March 3rd, 2004

Online pharmacies have raised ethical and safety concerns and have highlighted weaknesses in the traditional physician-pharmacist-patient relationship, researchers reported in an article in the February 2004 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Online pharmacies provide patients with an appealing alternative to the local pharmacy and are attracting a growing number of patients to their sites, says the lead author of the article, Constance Fung, MD, of the Division of General Internal Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, and the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Fung writes, however, that...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2004-03-03)

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