found this on the AZDHS site

Just to address the 1 year physician-patient relationship: If you read R9-17-101 16. b. the one year does not apply if the physician ??assumes primary responsibility for providing management and routine care of the patient??s debilitating medical condition?.? This means if you see a new physician and he/she will be seeing you in the future on a routine basis to ??oversee? your debilitating medical condition, he/she can give you the recommendation. This simply prevents one from seeing a ??pot-friendly doc? who will give him/her a recommendation and not see him/her for another year when he/she needs a recommendation renewed.

Will Humble
says:
December 17, 2010 at 4:42 pmTo all who are concerned with the one year physician provision, the draft rule language also provides a second alternative to the 1 year relationship if:

??The physician assumes primary responsibility for providing management and routine care of the patient??s debilitating medical condition after conducting a comprehensive medical history and physical examination, including a personal review of the patient??s medical record maintained by other treating physicians that may include the patient??s reaction and response to conventional medical therapies
nazman Reviewed by nazman on . Patient/Doctor relationship One Year?? I read some of the drafts on the AZ DHS and it looks like there is a requirement that the Doctor who writes the recommendation for a patient's MMJ card needs to have a relationship with the patient at least a year long, assessing the patient's condition prior to writing a recommendation. This seems like it will penalize the patient, who need help for their illness, and will delay applying for MMJ cards until a year from now. Have I mis-interpreted something in this draft? While my GP Rating: 5