Remember the last time you felt a headache coming on and there was no medicine available at home? In all probability, you had to get to your car, take a drive to the nearest pharmacy or drugstore and wait in line for the pharmacist to fill your prescription, pay for it, get back to the car and drive back home with an unbearable headache. It’s times like these that I wish I could use a “transporter” (like the one they have on the TV series Star Trek) to “beam” me to the drugstore and back in a matter of seconds!
Ok, I know this is never going to happen, but I always wondered why there wasn’t a simpler way to deal with it. I mean, if on each trip to the pharmacy, I stocked up on medicine for every imaginable ailment, chances are I would have to throw them away before I actually needed them. But invariably, whenever I need medicine, I never seem to have it at home (sound familiar). It’s enough to drive me up the wall, until I discovered the convenience of the online drugstore that is.
Come to think of it, when nearly every other product that is available offline is actually available online, why not have an online drugstore? The reasons are clouded in the mists of bureaucracy and safety concerns, but finally, pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals have successfully established the concept of online drugstores.
Getting to use an online drugstore is a simple matter. You log on to the website and create your personal profile. This profile includes your personal details, including, health conditions you may be suffering from, your doctor’s diagnosis, known allergies and reactions to certain medicines and your home address etc. When the online drugstore has this information, it is possible for them to, not only, send you the correct drugs based on your prescription, but also to compare the suggested drugs with your personalized information to ensure that you get the safest drugs.
Online drugstores took so long to come in because there were issues concerning privacy and misuse. For instance, unless the drugs could be matched to real prescriptions, fraudsters could use online drugstores as a way to secure loads of schedule H drugs or restricted drugs. This was the number one concern policy makers had to contend with when they decided to create online drugstores. Another issue was privacy.
Not all consumers were happy to divulge their personal information to pharmaceutical companies which operated online drugstores. After all, who wants to be spammed by marketing mails? But as far as I am concerned, online drugstores are a god send. Now, whenever a headache attacks, I can log on to my online drugstore, specify the medication and rest assured in the thought that relief will come to my doorstep!
