One of the greatest advantages of travel outside the USA is the ablity to buy prescription medicine without a Doctor, saving 1000's of dollars.
A solution to high medical cost may be to leave the USA and live abroad, I have been traveling perpetually for over a decade outside the USA. I do not have health insurance, and the only true worry I have is cancer or an acccident.
- Andy Graham of HoboTraveler.com
One should never feel smarter than their Doctor. I went for a physical yesterday inside the USA, and thought I can have this done faster, better, and quicker abroad.
One of the greatest advantages of travel outside the USA is the ablity to buy prescription medicine without a Doctor, saving 1000's of dollars.
Prescription medicines are available over the counter in most countries, you can buy some truly effective drugs like Tylex 750 outside the USA.
Here is an important article to read by Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post that explain a leap of faith that is needed by the American Citizens.
Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and medical technology to diagnose and treat injury and disease, typically through medication, surgery, or some other form of therapy. The word medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicine, meaning the art of healing.Though medical technology and clinical expertise are pivotal to contemporary medicine, successful face-to-face relief of actual suffering continues to require the application of ordinary human feeling and compassion, known in English as bedside manner.
Pharmacy: is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs. The word derives from the Greek: φάρμακον (pharmakon), meaning "drug" or "medicine"(the earliest form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek pa-ma-KO, attested in Linear B syllabic script).
The scope of pharmacy practice includes more traditional roles such as compounding and dispensing medications, and it also includes more modern services related to health care, including clinical services, reviewing medications for safety and efficacy, and providing drug information. Pharmacists, therefore, are the experts on drug therapy and are the primary health professionals who optimize medication use to provide patients with positive health outcomes.
An establishment in which pharmacy (in the first sense) is practiced is called a pharmacy, chemist's or (in the United States) drug store. US drug stores commonly sell not only medicines, but also miscellaneous items such as candy (sweets), cosmetics, and magazines, as well as light refreshments or groceries.
The word pharmacy is derived from its root word pharma which was a term used since the 15th–17th centuries. In addition to pharma responsibilities, the pharma offered general medical advice and a range of services that are now performed solely by other specialist practitioners, such as surgery and midwifery. The pharma (as it was referred to) often operated through a retail shop which, in addition to ingredients for medicines, sold tobacco and patent medicines. The pharmas also used many other herbs not listed.
In its investigation of herbal and chemical ingredients, the work of the pharma may be regarded as a precursor of the modern sciences of chemistry and pharmacology, prior to the formulation of the scientific method.
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