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I saw an ad for Amazon Medicine(tm) today, where the guy was video chatting with an Amazon Doctor(tm) for a prescription. I audibly gasped as visions of future horrors were revealed before my eyes. Good to see they are hard at work making my waking nightmares a living hell.
I can imagine something more routine like urine analysis or antibiotics you don't really have to touch the person to understand what's up. There's certainly more moving parts I'm sure you're taking issue with besides telehealth. I don't think that in and of itself is auto-bad.
Something with no concept of self nor weight nor dosage prescribing something to someone with no sense of what the medicine does is auto-bad. Like if I came in with a headcold and was told my prescription was vancomycin I could say "excuse me, what the fuck?" but if you didn't study at the torture institute to work at the adrenochrome factory like I did then you might not think twice after google tells you it fights infections.
Amazon prescribing antibiotics en masse would end up creating antibiotic resistant bacteria capable of creating pandemics worse than covid. We cannot afford overprescribing antibotics.
You totally have a point there. I'm haunted by the use of antibiotics in mass handling of cattle which contributes bigly to this sort of thing - to the point I sometimes neglect the prescription for patients as a contributor.