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From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski)
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Subject: Re: legal definition of practice of medicine
Message-ID: <376@mot.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 19:40:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 19:40:24 1985
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> Section 2052, California Business and Professional code
> defines the practice of medicine as:
> 
> "Any person who practices or attempts to practice or who
> advertises or holds himself or herself out as practicing
> any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted in
> this state or who diagnoses, treats, operates, for or
> prescribes for any ailment, blemish, deformity, disease,
> disfigurement, disorder injury or other physical or
> mental condition of any person."
> 
> The unlicensed practice of medicine is a misdemeanor.
> 
Lawyers take pride in being logical, yet produce such vague
nonsense as the above.  The result is that the written law
is useless in deciding what is legal and what is not.  
Going by the above, I might be put in jail for putting a
band-aid on my own finger. Maybe if lawyers were required to
take a course in computer programming, they might use language
with more precision(:-).  Or, maybe their INTENTION is to make it
sound like everything is illegal so there is more opportunity
to create case law. Or, maybe the above definition DOES mean 
something, but I don't understand the words. Is it too much to ask
that a literate person should be able to go to the library and
look up whether something is legal or not? 

Titillating Part: Especially amazing are the laws relating to sexual 
conduct: they are riddled with phrases like "crime against nature", 
"moral nuisance", "lewd behavior", etc. instead of saying exactly what 
you are allowed to do with exactly what parts of your anatomy.  

There ought to be a law.

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