Canadian Pharmacy Prescriptions
Canadian pharmacies are doing out prescriptions
like never before. When they are serving a huge domestic market,
they are as well catering to customers in the US. These pharmacies
in service out of Canada are filling out prescriptions for
all from common cold to controlling blood pressure.
It is understood that they can able to read
prescriptions given out by Canadian doctors for Canadian patients
but what about the patients across the border living in the
USA? In most of the cases, a Canadian doctor writes again
the prescription given out by his US counterpart so as to
make the whole process of filing out process officially permitted.
In case of unlicensed or registered by government pharmacies,
no one bothers as, prescriptions are not required just name
the drug and they will ship it across to you. Negligence of
some of the basic business ethics by certain firms has led
to these pharmacies coming under the scanner of authorities
both in the Canada and US.
In the US, fears have been increased over
the risk to patients from sale of counterfeit drugs. These
drugs may have inert components, which can cause significant
harm to the body of the consumer. In some cases it has been
found licensed drugs well past their expiry date were diverted
to unlicensed retailers for sale across the internet. Cases
of improperly manufactured drugs have also come to light.
According to the Canadian Medical Association,
physicians should definitely conduct a physical exam and discuss
the merits and risks related with consumption of a particular
drug prior to it are prescribed. However, in case of various
Canadian pharmacies this was not found to be the case. This
was also made easier by desperate patients in the United States
who were eager to buy anything offered cheap for different
ailments without being concerned about its side effects.
A few Canadian pharmacies have however, implemented
a lot of measures to gain trust of the customer based in US.
Most prominent among them is arranging for a visit by a Canada
based physician to the patient in US for investigative him
before filling out a prescription. All this is happening for
some time the business for Canadian firms is on the increase
by leaps and bounds. Canadian firms are nowadays filling out
prescriptions like never before. Some firms have claimed to
have filled to the extent that 3000 prescriptions a day indicating
the amount of business catered to by these pharmacies.
So irrespective of the some of the actions
being planned to control these pharmacies, it only seems that
these firms will carry on witness healthy growth rates. |