Cathy Tokarski Oct. 10, 2002
Minnesota’s Board of Medical Practice has reprimanded a physician who prescribed Viagra over the Internet to a patient he had never met. According to the board, the physician approved the prescription without examining the patient or establishing a physician-patient relationship, which is required under state law.
The disciplinary action, the first in Minnesota, signals growing concern among states about how to monitor Internet prescribing of the anti-impotence drug Viagra and other popular medications. Last month, the Council for Responsible Telemedicine issued voluntary standards to educate patients about online healthcare and protect them from unscrupulous telemedicine providers.
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