Specifically for acne treatments, seems fine.

If a 20 minute telehealth visit with a PA is a sufficient level of screening for a medication, it's hard to imagine a compelling reason why an AI system would not be.

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hansonkd 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Amazon's pharmacy prescribes a large swath of medications over text. No call or video necessary.

To make things more complicated, every message I sent was responded to by a different nurse practitioner. So it seemed everytime i sent a response or question, it would get routed to a random NP and she would respond without reviewing the full conversation.

Works if you know what you need, and I can't imagine AI being a worse process than whatever Amazon is doing.

	▲	skeledrew 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The AI at least is very good at maintaining the details of all conversations.

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tehwebguy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Specifically for acne treatments, seems fine.

Hard disagree. The only acne treatment I know by name has serious side effects that IMO should be discussed with a human at length before being used.

	▲	derektank 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Isotretinoin (formerly sold under the brand name Accutane) is not one of the drugs which can be prescribed by the system. Also, the reason you know its name is precisely because it is abnormally associated with increased risk of suicide.
	▲	bethekidyouwant 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Part of taking Accutane is regular blood tests so I imagine you still have to get those…

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dfxm12 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You have to pay $5/mo (on top your health insurance and prescription) and upload photos of your face along with a bunch of PII to who-knows-who.

Why do you think this is fine?