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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Credentials, State vs. private
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 12:21:23 EDT
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> [Laura Creighton]
> There is nothing in Libertaria which says that you shouldn't get the doctor
> that you want who went ot the medical school of your choice. All you have to
> do is hire *that* doctor rather than some other doctor. What it will do is
> to get rid of the fiction that all doctors are created equal, and make it
> clear to people that they are going to have to do the same level of research
> in selecting a doctor that they already do to select a car or a television.
> 
> I consider that a good thing.
-----
OK, I can research my personal physician's credentials.  What happens, however,
when I need emergency medical care, or if I get sick when away from home.
I want to know that all practicing doctors, not just mine, have met some
minimal competency standards.  State liscensing is not perfect in this
regard, but it is better than nothing.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan