1. Are there any international/US laws that regulate medical advice on the internet?

2. If a doctor gives advice to his regular patient on the net or thru email, is it valid?

3. Can a doctor-patient relation be established without seeing the patient in person?

4. Suppose a medical advice by a homeopath in italy to a patient in US goes wrong (or the patient holds the suggested medicine responsible for any adverse changes that may have occoured after taking homeopathic medicine), then under what legal framework (if there is any) can the person who gave the advice be held accountable?

5. Since in US the homeopathic medicines are available as 'over the counter drugs' as per FDA rules and u donot need a prescription to get them, Does having a prescription matters at all? Can a person be held responsible for suggesting a homeopathic medicine which does not even require a prescription to get?

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