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From: mdm@ecn-pc.UUCP ( Mike D McEvoy)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.legal
Subject: Re: legal definition of practice of medicine
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 15:36:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 15:36:47 1985
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Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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>> > The unlicensed practice of medicine is a misdemeanor.
>> >                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
>	While my classmates and I found the definition amusing, there was a
>       uniform reaction to this last line.
>	We're spending 4-7 years working 90 hour weeks (and that's a light 
>       week), going a quarter of a million dollars in debt to get our MD 
>	degree and medical licenses ...
>
>	THE LEAST THEY COULD DO IS MAKE IT A FELONY.

Of course, in order to maintain the status quo, those found guilty of
malpractice will be sentenced to death by lethal injection (AIDS virus???)

				or worse

Four more years of residency at - Insert your favorite med school - 

				Big Mac