In this day and age, when a pizza can be order online, it would be a surprise to learn that pharmaceutical supplies still had to be ordered directly from manufacturers or from catalog tomes. And yet, until very recently, it was nearly impossible for a physician to order pharmaceuticals for his or her office without going straight to the source of to distant and bureaucratic distributors who took weeks if not months to compile and ship orders of important testing, examination, and office supplies.

Thankfully a few entrepreneurial physicians and surgeons realize just how valuable a better way to get medical office supplies could be to the thousands of physicians nationwide. They started an online medical supply store that stocks thousands of SKUs including everything from examination equipment, to sanitary equipment, office furniture, and office and examination room supplies. The result is a streamlined ordering process that will get what is needed to a physician’s office within a few days at a fraction of the cost of what big distributors would charge.

Ordering medical supplies online will make these few entrepreneurs big money and will also improve life for the millions of Americans who depend on doctors – entrepreneurship toward the common good if I’ve ever seen it.