Online Medical Consultation is a recent concept that require full awareness.
India formally recognized and regulated telemedicine, authorizing registered medical practitioners to provide teleconsultation to patients. This allows registered medical practitioners to start providing online medicine delivery services.
Online medical consultations are easy and convenient, especially in covid times. We can access healthcare from anywhere and that is a boon for online consultation. There are lots of apps and websites that are providing doctor consultation facilities at least time. It’s convenient to speak with a doctor online.
Do’s and Don'ts of consult doctor online:
Trust certified and legitimate websites.
Be completely honest about symptoms. As the doctor does not have an in-person visit with you so if you are not honest then that may lead to wrong end-up prescription.
Take a signed prescription only that shows legitimacy in prescription.
Provide medical history to doctors and also make sure to convey them if you take any medicine.
With lockdown extension there are many patients who are not able to take consultation physically so online consultation gains more importance from that time. There are certain restrictions and guidelines that medical practitioners and patients are expected to follow. Most restrictions are on the type of medicines doctors can prescribe. The doctor and patients have to confirm identities to each other such as name, age, address, e-mail etc.

Things to kept in mind before taking online doctor consultation: Ensure good internet connectivity, proper sound so that doctors can understand your problem without having any miscommunication between the two. Should provide all your medical health records to them so that it is good for easy reference and after that medicine order online facility. Keep pen and paper to note down if any advice is given by the doctor.
Write down all doubts you want to ask from doctor before taking doctor consultation online so that you won’t skip any.