Medical Licensing Debates

If true, could doctors loose their medical license for participating in something like this?

He’s a board-certified medical doctor. Are you implying the board does a bad job at protecting that licensure?

These "doctors" should be barred from practicing medicine. I am not a lawyer, but it would seem that this practice also borders on criminal negligence.

Me? In a world where such licenses were not mandatory, i.e. the doctor in question wasn't actually breaking any laws? Sure.I'd probably want some alternative evidence of competence of course, like a long stream of happy, healthy, cured patients who could vouch for him. Or alternatively some sort of private sector approval scheme, based on trademark licensing. Sort of like how you can't claim a phone supports Bluetooth unless it's been licensed and approved.But in genera

Remember: the doctors working at insurance companies do not need to have a license to practice medicine to do so. In fact an orthopedic surgeon had to fight a denied authorization from a guy who lost his license for surgery for life because he installed a hip backwards!

Really? So medical licenses dont matter any more?

Because when you're a medical professional you can lose your licence for experimenting on patients.

Which doesn't address why HN is teetering on practicing medicine without a license with some of these comments.

Will somebody please just report these guys for the unlicensed practice of medicine?

Well, this should be defined as practicing medicine. (Ultimately, you are controlling whether and what treatment occurs.)Correspondingly, their licenses should be on the line, as well as liability for malpractice.Let regulation and tort law take a few of them out. See what happens, then. Maybe even criminal law, as inevitably some patients will die due to lack of proper care.