Elenamary

Getthepill.com “on-line prescriptions for emergency contraception (the morning after pill).

I just found out about this at Salon.com. It is amazing!

In 2000, Dr. Matt Wise launched the Web site Getthepill.com — which provides prescriptions for emergency contraception — as a short-term end run around the obstacles women face who are trying to get the drug.

Getthepill.com logs 30 to 50 prescription requests or inquiries per day, most from women who have found the site via a search engine or a public health Web site; some college health services also recommend the site for use on weekends, when they’re closed. Women seeking a prescription are asked to fill out a questionnaire designed, in part, to confirm that they are at risk of pregnancy — but not already pregnant. (Plan B will not harm an existing pregnancy, says Wise, but it is a waste of time for a pregnant patient to use the drug.) “If patients get confused about when their last period was, I’ll get on the phone with them and pull out my calendar and we’ll try to do the best math we can to figure it out,” says Wise. When a patient’s need is confirmed, a prescription is called or sent in to the pharmacy of her choice. If a pharmacy or pharmacist turns out to be hostile to dispensing emergency contraception — which happens once every other day or so, Wise says — his staff goes back through their extensive database, which lists pharmacies across the country that they have used successfully, until they find a friendlier one.