Medical Pot Clinic Offers Health Care Practitioner Visits Via Skype (Ottawa Metro)

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– By Trevor Greenway

An Ottawa-based medical marijuana licensing clinic is reaching out to patients as far as the Yukon by facilitating health care practitioner visits through Skype.

Patient navigator for Medical Marijuana Services (MMS) Robert Callaghan says telemedicine allows his company to link up remote patients with pot-prescribing doctors. Most physicians in Canada are still hesitant to prescribe the drug to patients he says.

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Medical Marijuana Clinic Aims to Help Patients Find Pot Docs (Metro)

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A new medical marijuana clinic in Ottawa is linking up patients with chronic pain, sleep disturbance, cancer and PTSD with a doctor willing to sign off on prescriptions to the drug.

Medical Marijuana Services (MMS) held it’s first open consultation last weekend and hooked eight patients up with a doctor who signed off on their medical marijuana prescriptions.

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