There is a dangerous game in healthcare happening in India. You must know this and be prepared and beware of online E-pharmacy companies like @pharmeasyapp A person attaches a doctor's prescription for diabetes medications for his father to purchase from this online pharmacy. The online e-pharmacy, @pharmeasyapp acknowledges this and then gives the customer a call back - and on the pretext of "confirming" the order/prescription, the caller on the other end (supposedly a pharmacist) suggests that the patient be given a herbal supplement also, along with the diabetes medication - because it is natural/chemical-free/ and will be more effective. The customer, repeatedly asks the "pharmacist" why this is suggested. To which, the @pharmeasyapp employee replies that THEY ARE COMPELLED by the company policy which FORCES them to dump & sell untested, unknown herbal products in the pretext of good-will, on gullible and un-assuming customers. The employee then provides as an excuse that "the customer can decline the suggestion if they did not want it." This particular customer, @abhijit_MLab is an informed person -> well-informed about his father's condition, the importance of of empirical evidence in prescription drugs and the potential harms of non-evidence based herbal supplements - because of which, he could easily question and escape potential harms from PharmEasy's "business of selling" herbal products. But the majority of Indian people are not well informed about healthcare options. A large proportion of Indian patients and their families still believe that herbal supplements are safe and chemical free. They are not. They harm more and they have no conclusive benefits. They are peddled by alternative medicine practitioners, Ayush companies and blood-sucking E-pharmacies to monetize on the gullibility and scientidic-illiteracy of the Indian health-seeking population. Pharmacists cannot practice & prescribe medications. An e-pharmacist does not even see the patient face to face. They have no clue about the patient's history and disease management. Here are the rules that every pharmacist must follow - ima-india.org/ima/left-side-… - PharmEasy business honchos, please educate yourself and update your employees lest you face jail time because some patient died because of your "nonsense integrated medicine." These are bottom-feeder scum - that not only monetize intentionally on their own patients/families lack of health-literacy, but also plays on the business of emotions to provide them false hope, to escalate their sales. Utterly shameless, worst people in the community. Now the elephant in the room. Herbals have been identified to have glucose lowering plant compounds. BUT none of these herbal supplements are approved or recommended for treating diabetes. In fact, Prof. Anoop Misra wrote in the Lancet that "Alternative medicines for diabetes in India was maximum hype, minimum science." - thelancet.com/journals/landi… Many herbal drugs disguised as useful for diabetes are adulterated with undisclosed drugs [as reported in The Lancet - A herbal treatment for type 2 diabetes adulterated with undisclosed drugs - thelancet.com/journals/lance…]... ...and can lower glucose levels leading to hypoglycemia and death - remember the pilot who took both standard medicines and herbal medicines for diabetes and crashed a flight because he went into a hypoglycemic brain failure mid air? Unprescribed Medicines May Have Affected Pilot: Kerala Air Crash Report - ndtv.com/india-news/unp… If a customer's family member had indeed started on the herbal drugs along with the diabetes medications and suffered hypoglycemia and died or if the herbal supplements reduced the effectiveness of standard diabetes medications and the family member developed complications of diabetes... ...WOULD PHARMEASY be responsible for it? Or was it the customer's fault that she/he did not know any better that they were being fooled?

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp I can just imagine how many elderly people who have a blind belief in 'herbal, ayurvedic' must be agreeing to this 'offer'

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Here's a diff story: A friend of mine works in the corporate sector and during COVID his company supplied the entire staff with herbal supplements for "immunity-boosting". For free. Crazy imagining how much for these products are just ordered in bulk by corporations.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp also happening at Apollo hospitals’ in-house pharmacies. You go for one consultation, medicines are recommended and the pharmacists try to sell “herbal supplements,” for no rhyme or reason.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Really odd! Even repeat prescriptions need reassessment by a doctor (and not a pharmacist). The medical history, esp allergies, have to be known. As for herbal/natural supplements, how many people know that grapefruit is not to be given to someone who takes simvastatin, etc.?

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp This happened to me also yesterday. I had to literally argue with the caller that I don't trust herbal supplements and I don't care if it is recommended by Ayush Ministry.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Not just online companies, Wellness Forever stores keep pushing for herbal products, multi vitamins and bulk buying of regular medicines. This is happening in broad day light and no regulator, no authority is willing to take any action.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Recently this happened to me too. After placing the order, the customer care executive tried to sell me Omega 3 supplements, even when I don't require them.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp @pharmeasyapp has done multiple frauds apart frm what u hv mentioned. Whenever I raised concern, they come back wid Rs50 wallet amt credit. It’s high time to call this culprit out. Also whenever someone books lab test wid them, their phlebotomist tries to cross sell other tests.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Tagging @Sidbshah for his comments. This is your company is it not??

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp I observed my mother’s blood sugar levels when she consumed Ashwagandha for a few days along with her prescribed diabetes medication. It went up to levels she had never seen in her life. Thankfully not to life threatening levels. It was normal once she stopped Ashwagandha.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp This is happening with every epharmacy sir.. at every step they push herbals and ayurvedic products and stuff, right from the time one opens the app and encounters the home screen, till the time this confirmation nonsense you have mentioned happens. The shilling is relentless

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp this has never happened when i order things from 1mg. Didn't know this about pharmeasy, thanks for boosting this.

@theliverdr @drvineetgovinda @pharmeasyapp Actually pharmeasy is dying out of big losses and thyrocare acquisition also didn't played out as expected. So to earn more n reduce losses, started selling useless cheap herbal products with lucrative margins. I totally stopped ordering from pharmeasy offlate.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp What about Moringa tablets sent to me with my parents medicine

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp I have moved out of @pharmeasyapp to @1mgOfficial - and have no regrets.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp I order my grandma’s meds from PharmEasy on a monthly basis. They keep calling me subsequently saying there are cheaper substitutes for my order. Also push for herbal drugs for same ailments. I tell them I’m a pharmacist too, kindly adhere to the order I’ve placed. And hang up.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Lot of products are being sold by e-commerce companies (Patanjali being prominent) in the name of herbal, Ayush, Organic et all claiming their products as medicine, detox, supplement, tonic. These products don't contain what is written on labels. GoI is not willing to regulate.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Even @Apollo24x7 does the same. Giving herbal recommendations in app once a purchase is made .

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp My elder brother runs pillar to post pursuing every alternative medicine/treatment for his 13 year old daughter (who was recently diagnosed with diabetes). I am worried for her health.

@theliverdr Doc! It’s always happening, when their E-Pharmacist call, ‘to confirm your order’ as per prescription. Furthermore, when they don’t have inventory/stock of the medicine/tablet as per ‘prescription’ upload, they also try and suggest alternative medication without any knowledge.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Whenever someone says "Oh it doesn't have chemicals", I am like "Our body is literally made up of chemicals you moron".

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Had ordered some meds, the sent btl of HepaPreserve, told them I didn’t order. They said it’s free sample. Said I don’t have any liver issues pls give someone who will benefit. Saw ur post & found this lying in the cabinet. Thankfully didn’t consume

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@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Damn scary! Thank you for highlighting this too. There is no dearth of unscrupulous practices by rotten souls in the medical field

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Nutracuitical industry, piggy backing on FSSAI placebo supplements, are making huge in roads by engineering Rx . Most do called super speciality hospital docs prescribing exorbitantly costly supplements along with FDA 💊. Appears along with docs, pharmacist also tapped. FDA???

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Ya every time I order, the "pharmacist" always recommends a certain aloe Vera juice adamantly. On refusal says its herbal, no side effects.. Have to refuse 2 3 times, then only he surrenders

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp @pharmeasyapp this seems legit. And you should be ashamed.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp Thanks for the Post Doc. Need your Advice about generic medicines, as many medical reps are saying that they are not good. Can't understand whom to trust. Please throw light on this issue as well. Thanks in advance!!

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp All the big pharmacy chains, Online pharma stores selling pushing generic non required medicines to patients. They are giving special incentives to their salesman’s to boost sales and substitute standard medicine with generic or PCD medicines.

@theliverdr @pharmeasyapp They'll sell these toxic herbal products just like that but won't sell some psychiatric medicines even after attaching prescription 😑