If you have ever considered or tried purchasing prescription drugs online or even supplements, the internet is a very difficult place. You can never really be certain if a company will actually deliver what you order or whether they will deliver what they promise.
Enter the Canada Pharmacy Escrow Service which basically enables you to
- shop for drugs and supplements online
- Review prices from pharamacies around the world
- Place orders through those pharmacies
- Provide a prescription or have a medical review performed online
- Get the drugs or supplements shipped to you.
- If a pharmacy does not deliver or the shipment is lost (remember this is international) then the escrow service protects you and reships the order at no additional cost.
This basically opens up the pharmacies around the world to people shopping for the best prices. It is an interesting business application to a problem that was created by the internet and the flattening of the world economy.
More an more escrow services in general are finding new and useful applications to a number of areas on the internet, medicine is just one of them, but given skyrocketing price of medicine prices around the world, this offers a solution of enabling customers to benefit from price arbitrage (buying from whatever jurisdiction or pharmacy offers the lowest price).
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Composition of the Chest
Composition of the Chest– the chest is composed of bones, cartilages, and ligaments. Its natural form is that of a cone diminishing upward; and it affords lodgment of the heart, lungs and large blood vessels. Its walls are formed posteriorly by the seven dorsal bones of the spinal column, and the ribs as far as the angle, the sides by the body of the ribs, and front by the ribs, the costal cartilages and the breast bone.
This section is about as exciting as you’d expect from a medical textbook. It’s almost unique in the fact that it has no items comments or issues that don’t seem like they would appear in a medical textbook. Some of the descriptions seem rather basic, but even that’s a bit of a stretch to find something unique about this section.
- Taxes before Health
I had to take a break to do my taxes last week. For what its worth, it might be interesting to know that when this book was published, people did not have to file income taxes in the United States.
There were other forms of taxes, but not income taxes. I suspect that there may be a correlation to the introduction of income taxes and obesity and heart problems in the US. I doubt anyone will ever be able to fulfil a research project on that to prove it right or wrong any more than they might show that children that drive RC cars recklessly grow up to drive real cars recklessly, but it is an interesting historical perspective.
- Order of Brain Mechanism
It’s been a few days since I visited the Book of Medicine so I’ve got a little catching up to do. Today on the cover a quick little section and tomorrow I’ve got a much longer section.
Order of Brain Mechanism – commencing from above and descending downward we observe the following important structures, to wit: the fascia or skin covering the cranial bones; and then a section of the bones themselves, showing their laminated structures. Between the bones of us go on the brain are seeing the meningeal coats of the brain, which serve the double purpose of supplying it with blood vessels and protecting a delicate organ from pressure or injury.
There isn’t too much of her mark bowl interest here and this particular section other than the fact that I believe the word ‘fascia’ is today spelled as facia. So more along the lines I think the word is lost to ‘S’. That’s probably not terribly surprising as this book was written right around the time that various different countries were attempting to standardize dictionaries and spelling around the world. Furthermore this book is written for publication in both the United Kingdom and in the United States and so some of the language could have variations due to either of the intended reader bases.
An interesting possibility; however, given the amount of people using internet pharmacies these days (see the Mark Monitor, August 2008 study), I am not sure that this will have much effect on the security of the internet drug industry.
Additionally, much of the problem lies with counterfeit drugs. Many internet pharamcy customers likely have no idea that what they are receiving is not what they asked for.
[...] BookofMedicine.com provides an interesting report on the Canada Pharmacy Escrow Service, a company dedicated to solving the problem of counterfeit online drugs. As one might guess, the company is an escrow service that will reship medication or refund a customer’s money, should the prescription not arrive from the pharmacy. Whether this takes off is anyone’s guess. [...]