RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society opposes the practice of prescribing drugs to individuals the physician has not personally examined based solely on answers to a set of questions, as is common in Internet or toll-free telephone prescribing, except in certain circumstances such as admission orders for a newly hospitalized patient, prescribing for a patient of another physician for whom the prescriber is taking call, or continuing medication on a short-term basis for a new patient prior to the patient’s first appointment.