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Australian Law¹⁾ relating to prescribing Schedule 4, 8 or 9 poisons by a registered medical practitioner
- MUST NOT issue a prescription unless:
  - the prescription is for the medical treatment of a person other than the practitioner, and,
  - that person is under the practitioner's care, and named in the prescription, and,
  - the practitioner has taken all reasonable steps to ensure a therapeutic need exists for that poison.
in the ED, this would imply that an ED doctor should not write a discharge prescription for a physiotherapy practitioner's patient unless they themseleves have had some degree of personal assessment of that patient

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Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 2017