Abstract: A control center receives an order from a patient's smart phone to fill a new prescription prescribed by a doctor to a patient, along with a selection of one drug dispensing kiosk. A remotely located pharmacist video teleconferences with the patient via the patient's smart phone to provide counseling about the prescribed pharmaceutical. The patient goes to the drug dispensing kiosk where the patient inputs information that is communicated to the control center. In response to the patient's input, the remotely located pharmacist initiates a transmission to the control center. In response to receiving input from the remotely located pharmacist, the control center communicates an order to dispense the new prescription to the patient from the drug dispensing kiosk such that the order to dispense the new prescription to the patient from the drug dispensing kiosk is initiated by a human so as to be as a subjective dispensing decision.