Online Rx with no exam or pt contact?

[BChapp3182]

Can someone please explain to me how these weight loss, antiaging and other type of online clinics are prescribing prescription medications to patients who are never physically examined by the prescribing practitioner? All they do is fill out an online medical history, pay and get a prescription or a medication delivered right to them. I saw alot of this with overseas pharmacies but now I see it going on here in the US. How can this be legal (because there's no way it's safe!)??

[CRF250Xpert]

Once again, when you get more experience, you might change, or not. Don't run down other providers who may be good, thorough provider that are able to listen to breath sounds under a shirt.

I consider the lungs to an area of expertise. I've done anesthesia for 20 years now and never had a misplaced ETT or even a right main stem that I did not pick up, OMG sometimes through the gown. :)

LOL. I used to work with an anasthesiologist that didn't even own a stethoscope. He'd place hands on the chest for lungs and have the PT lift the tongue for a CBC - good to go. I can also fully see how catching a misplaced tube doesn't need ears. Tidal volumes in the dumper and poor sats would lead even me to pull back a bit and see if things improve.