you need in the next minute or ten—sheets, coffee, razor blades—there’s a sleek-looking start-up promising to have the best product, the easiest ordering process, and the smoothest delivery. But should you really be clicking on all those ads in your social feeds for free medical consults and cheap, easy meds? “It’s good and bad… it’s complicated,” says Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., an associate professor of health-care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Consider this before you click.
