Section 562.112 - Practitioner-Patient Relationship Required(a) A pharmacy shall ensure that its agents and employees, before dispensing a prescription, determine in the exercise of sound professional judgment that the prescription is a valid prescription. A pharmacy may not dispense a prescription drug if an agent or employee of the pharmacy knows or should know that the prescription was issued on the basis of an Internet-based or telephonic consultation without a valid practitioner-patient relationship.(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit a pharmacy from dispensing a prescription when a valid practitioner-patient relationship is not present in an emergency. Amended and renumbered by Acts 2007, 80th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 921,Sec. 17.001, eff. 9/1/2007.Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1345,Sec. 22, eff. 9/1/2005.