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How do you know this app is reputable and deliverers real medicine? I wish the author had mentioned this. It's not an issue when the app is provided by your h
by PretzelFisch 10y ago
How do you know this app is reputable and deliverers real medicine? I wish the author had mentioned this. It's not an issue when the app is provided by your health insurance company. But if it's not how do you know?
- smt88 10y agoThe app doesn't deliver medicine. Regular pharmacies do. The app just makes it quicker, easier, and more private to get the prescription in the first place. From the article: "...a doctor reviews a woman’s medical information and sends a pill prescription to a local pharmacy. "'I thought it was just a setup to get money,' [a user] said. But after she answered the health questions one evening, 'a doctor actually contacted me after office hours,' and the next morning, she picked up three months’ worth of pills."
- PretzelFisch 10y ago"All prescribe birth control pills, and some prescribe patches, rings and morning-after pills. Some ship contraceptives directly to women’s doors." It's the ship directly to the door part that sounds like it could allow the selling of fraudulent medicine.
- smt88 10y agoNurx is the one that ships directly to the customer, and the drugs still come from local pharmacies[1]. They're probably connecting the pharmacies to the users with some third-party, last-mile delivery service. 1. http://www.nurx.co/howitworks.html http://www.nurx.co/howitworks.html
- 50CNT 10y agoThat's pretty similar to how I heard on-line viagra companies do it. Except shadier and without the apps.
- maroonblazer 10y agoThe app isn't delivering medicine. It's connecting the user with a doc who can write a prescription that's filled by a pharmacy.