the unauthorized practice of medicine occurs when someone gives medical advice or treatment without a professional license. The prohibition against the unauthorized practice of medicine is a precaution against people who would try to treat others without the proper training, or by using unproven methods which could harm or even kill their supposed patients. As a result, all states make the unauthorized practice of medicine a criminal offense with potentially serious penalties. However, the practice of medicine itself is a slippery term which can be difficult to define.
[h=3]what is the practice of medicine?[/h]since states are responsible for providing medical licenses, each state has a slightly different legal definition for the practice of medicine. In general, a person practices medicine when he or she tries to diagnose or cure an illness or injury, prescribes drugs, performs surgery, or claims he or she is a doctor.
Sometimes, activities that might be considered the unauthorized practice of medicine are legal even when performed by people without a medical license. For example,
schools may administer prescription drugs to students who need them because a doctor has already prescribed the drugs, and it is generally considered safer than leaving the drugs in the students' hands.
[h=3]on medical advice[/h]the practice of medicine becomes trickier to define when you look at medical advice. There are a few guidelines, however, that can help define when "medical advice" is "the practice of medicine." in general, advice as the practice of medicine has several of the following qualities:
- first, advice might be considered "the practice of medicine" when the persongiving it claims he or she is a doctor. This is because the title of "doctor" indicates that the person giving advice has gone through the rigorous process of medical school and succeeded in obtaining a medical license. So your friends cannot be considered to be practicing medicine when they tell you to take more vitamin c, since they never claim to be doctors.
- second, advice may be the practice of medicine when the advice is specific to a particular person's illness or injury. <----------
one guy is reccomending certain strins for seizures. My mom died from some asshole giving bad advice and he was a doctor. I reported this site and will sue it when i follow the assholes advice and have my seizure because of his prescription.
This is a grow pot board, not a doctors office.
