Telemedicine: A Workaround to Pandemic Control

In Australia, telemedicine doctors are allowed to prescribe dogs provided there has been a face-to-face appointment in the past 12 months. California has a centralised database of all controlled substance prescriptions. It's actually easy and extremely effective at making us think before prescribing. The regulatory state mostly rules by fear. Everyone has a vague sense that if they overprescribe controlled substances according to some inscrutable criterion, something bad will happen to them.