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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 health insurance company. But if it's not how do you know?
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That's the strict Libertarian view, yes. The consensus among medical ethicists, however, is that medical professionals have a duty to avoid allowing patients to come to harm, and that this duty takes priority even over the patient's wishes; wanting to cut your arm off may be your own business, but you won't find a surgeon offering to sell you tools for that purpose.
The consensus among medical ethicists is that medical professionals have a pretty bad track record of treating womens' health issues. The (over-)medicalization of childbirth, for example, has had a notable impact.
Similarly for IMR, an impressive drop from 1 in 10 to better than 1 in 100.
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?
The 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 conta…
It's the ship directly to the door part that sounds like it could allow the selling of fraudulent medicine.
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In USA, many people do not have access to a GP.
"In USA, many people do not have access to a GP." This is such an culturally alien experience. Thanks for reminding me healthcare is unevenly distributed.
"...almost two million reported they have tried to find a family doctor in the past year and failed."
[1]http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=5c461d67-d...
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"In USA, many people do not have access to a GP." This is such an culturally alien experience. Thanks for reminding me healthcare is unevenly distributed.
Having difficulty finding a family doctor is not that odd. Many Canadians are having a hell of a time of it.[1] "...almost two million reported they have tried to find a family doctor in the past year and failed." [1] http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=5c461d67-d...
read the article @refurb, information shows lack of primary medical care but why? cost, lack of GPs, remoteness and dispersion of patients? I know the US and Canada are both vast countries with unequal distribution of population. The root of inequity in Australia is cost, remoteness & dispersion of the population. Most live in the cities, in the bush you cop poor quality of access and service even though primary health care is mostly free (Medicare).
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The 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 conta…
"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.
There is a problem with birth control that the media doesn't like to talk about. While millions of women take birth control, almost all of them eventually (or immediately) hate the side effects. So most women take these awful drugs only because they are seen as the best way to prevent pregnancy. Cruising over to reddit's /r/birthcontrol now, this submission was from 16 hours ago: > So because I was losing hair after…
There is a problem with birth control that the media doesn't like to talk about. While millions of women take birth control, almost all of them eventually (or immediately) hate the side effects. So most women take these awful drugs only because they are seen as the best way to prevent pregnancy. Cruising over to reddit's /r/birthcontrol now, this submission was from 16 hours ago: > So because I was losing hair after…
Almost all? I think you might be falling victim to selection bias. Not many women cruise over to /r/birthcontrol to talk about how they've been on it for years without any side effects.
There is a problem with birth control that the media doesn't like to talk about. While millions of women take birth control, almost all of them eventually (or immediately) hate the side effects. So most women take these awful drugs only because they are seen as the best way to prevent pregnancy. Cruising over to reddit's /r/birthcontrol now, this submission was from 16 hours ago: > So because I was losing hair after…
> Almost all of them eventually (or immediately) hate the side effects Any source on this? My wife took birth control because of ovarian cysts. She had issues with the first few types, but we eventually found one that has worked for nearly a decade, with no issues. I know of several other women with this same experience. Reddit (or any other forum used for complaints) is hardly a good example to support this.
Surely you'd agree that fixing the cause of ovarian cysts would be better than putting women on maintenance medication?
> Reddit (or any other forum used for complaints) is hardly a good example to support this.
Women who share their negative experiences are the Canaries in Medicine's coal mine. The few who are overtly harmed should warn us that there are problems with these prescriptions.