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40. In the context of "telemedicine", early efforts to avoid this result seem to take the form of allowing doctors to interact with other doctors in consultations, requiring compliance with local regulations only when the doctor deals directly with a patient. See Howard J. Young and Robert J. Waters, Arent Fox Kitner Plotkin & Kahn, Licensure Barriers to the Interstate Use of Telemedicine, (1995) available at http://www.arentfox.com/newslett/tele1b.htm. The regulation of lawyers is muddled: Regulations are sometimes based on where the lawyer's office is (as in the case of Texas' regulation of advertising), sometimes based on the content of legal advice, and sometimes based on the nature and location of the client. See Katsh, Law in a Digital World, supra note 11, at 178-181.