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From a Chronic Pain Forum:
Just my humble opinion since I have only dealt with a single Online Medical
Service Provider (OP), but YFD has always impressed me with their
professionalism. From what I have read on OP message boards, each OP has its own
plusses and minuses and what you could call varying levels of
"respectability", but:
1) YFD insists on prior medical records and obviously looks at them and the
prescribing doctor discusses your situation in detail during each consultation.
2) YFD insists on proper id.
3) YFD is prompt and professional with consultations and in responding to CS
calls within 2 rings and emails within a couple of hours (not that I have had to
contact them much!). My pain relievers have always arrived without a hitch or a
glitch. The one time there was a minor credit card mix-up, it was rectified
quickly with professionally.
4) YFD insists on sending a port-a-medic to examine the patient. My wife was
initially very leery about my obtaining medication over the Internet, having
read all the tabloid stories the media likes to dredge up regarding the dangers
inherent in internet dealings in general. However, when YFD sent a port-a-medic
to my house, she said she now felt much, much more comfortable with the idea of
my getting my medication on the 'net since I am dealing with a professional
medical practice and not some "boiler room" operation.
5) YFD's consultations don't consist of "What do you want and how
many?" like some of the fading providers did. Instead, they always
take as much time as needed to assess the progress the patient is making and
whether I am following the helpful additional advice that is always offered in
along with the prescription therapy. Their docs are obviously not trying to fill
a quota of generating 9000 orders an hour or some such.
I don't doubt that there are other OPs of the same caliber as YFD, but like I
said, I have only used YFD and since I am a loyal patient, I don't plan to jump
ship just because some other OP may be $10.00 cheaper or offer more refills.
Some cynics have suggested the YFD policy of only one refill is a rip-off. I
tend to see it as a method to keep better track of the patient's progress which
is a good thing when dispensing powerful medications.
Don't think that I am a "shill" for YFD, but as with so many types of
businesses, message boards only hear from the few unsatisfied customers and
never the happy customers who have no urgency to write and say "all is
fine".
YFD has changed my life so much for the better. With my chronic back pain, no
local doctor was willing to offer any effective medication to allow me to live
mostly pain-free. Some docs here have told me that they are afraid of the DEA if
they prescribe a decent amount of medication to a patient.
I thank G_d for YFD and for the fact that my back problems are relatively
mundane in the scheme of life, especially after reading so many postings on
chronic pain message boards from those who suffer far worse hardships than I
could ever imagine. I am grateful that I can now perform all tasks required at
my job with close to the same level of comfort that I enjoyed as a younger man
before all this pain started.
YFD and the others like them will be the future of telemedicine as they continue
to scrupulously adapt to the emerging rules that are being applied to internet
medicine. Many of those rules make perfect sense, since we surely don't want 13
year olds ordering meds over the Internet from those less than careful OPs.
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