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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
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         Each director and/or officer of NetMed, Inc. (the "Corporation") whose
signature appears below hereby appoints David J. Richards, Kenneth B. Leachman,
and William J. Kelly, Jr. as the undersigned's attorneys or any of them
individually as the undersigned's attorney, to sign, in the undersigned's name
and behalf and in any and all capacities stated below, and to cause to be filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), the
Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K (the "Form 10-K") for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 1998, and likewise to sign and file with the Commission any
and all amendments to the Form 10-K, and the Corporation hereby also appoints
such persons as its attorneys-in-fact and each of them as its attorney-in-fact
with like authority to sign and file the Form 10-K and any amendments thereto
granting to each such attorney-in-fact full power of substitution and
revocation, and hereby ratifying all that any such attorney-in-fact or the
undersigned's substitute may do by virtue hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Power of
Attorney in counterparts if necessary, effective as of March 23, 1999.


     SIGNATURE                              TITLE

/s/David J. Richards               President,  Director
- -------------------------          (Principal Executive Officer)
   David J. Richards     

/s/Kenneth B. Leachman             Executive Vice President-Finance,
- -------------------------          Treasurer (Principal Financial and
   Kenneth B. Leachman             Accounting Officer)
                         
/s/Treavor Ferger
- -------------------------
   Trevor Ferger                   Director

/s/Cecil J. Petitti
- -------------------------
   Cecil J. Petitti                Director

/s/Michael S. Blue
- -------------------------
   Michael S. Blue                 Director

/s/Robert J. Massey
- -------------------------
   Robert J. Massey                Director

/s/James F. Zid
- -------------------------
   James F. Zid                    Director

/s/Susan M. O'Toole
- -------------------------
   Susan M. O'Toole                Director