#practicing medicine without a license

[fall-out-girlboy]

snapchat videos will be titled "pimple extraction" and it's a back alley cosmetologist removing a stage 3 skin tomour with an exacto knife.

[runedscope]

Considering all the previous major fuckups when companies tried to use ai for mental health probably not a great idea to use this and probably not great for tumblr to be advertising in at the top of the dashboard.

Looks like they can sell data about any way you interact with the app which idk since im not a programmer looks like any information you put into the app is sellable.

[lesbiantenets]

Here are the instructions on the website. When I worked at an abortion clinic in Texas, the physicians would always prescribe Zofran and Norco. It's a relief to see at least one of these post-Roe telehealth clinics follow the same standard of care.

Her Safe Harbor provides abortion medication kits that include mife, miso, 2 Zofran tablets, pain meds, and as much/little 1:1 support as desired, for $150 to all 50 states, no matter the threats you get from your partner, relatives, or backwards republican state laws

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"GIVEN FIVE MONTHS," Hamilton Spectator. August 30, 1912. Page 4. --- Accused Pleaded Guilty to Practicing Medicine Illegally --- Canadian Press Service. North Bay, Aug. 28. - J. A. Berube, M.D., graduate of Laval University, Montreal, was sentenced to five months In Central Prison. by Magistrate Weegar, in, default of fines and costs aggregating $162.61 on five charges of practicing medicine Illegally in Bonfield, not having passed the Ontario Medical Council examination, W. J. Conners prosecuted for the Ontario Medical Council. Several previous convictions had been registered against Berube, on one of which he served thirty days in jail. He pleaded guilty to all five charges.

[morvith]

"Self-inserts are for teenagers"

False, sometimes they are for nearly-40 mothers of two who long to grab Ulmo by the rags and demand to know what expertise he has to call Fëanor's birth "marred" since he is the fucking Vala of the fucking Sea and most definitely NOT the Vala of Childbirth!

How many children has he given birth to?! Because I had two, both of whom were cut out of my living body!

Is he a certified midwife?!

Does he have a degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology?! Uh?? DOES HE???

[caught-tumbling]

@thatse-corvid-core-babey don't know if this was on purpose but between the deserved rage of the post, repeated posts, and 69 notes, its a vibe

Who the FUCK decided that insurance companies get to decide what’s medically necessary????????

[lovenpeace-pkmn]

SKYLA - What's the furthest you've gone for a friend?

I have...done quite a bit of research into hybrid medicine for some friends.

[bobokitty]

Clowning on my ocs is my favorite past time

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

maizuru seems highly conformist and feminine so its interesting the clothing she wears for most of the series seems to be for noblemen. Its probably bc the iconography of the onmyoji is that strong. But its an interesting wrinkle nonetheless.

[ladyinrainbowglasses]

Turns out Congressional aides REALLY do not like it when you call and ask how long their pro-forced birth Congress critter had been studying obstetrics and gynecology.

[lifewithaview]

David Caruso in CSI Miami (2002) Dispo Day

S1E18

A drugs transport to incineration is attacked by a well-armed gang, but a woman shouting for help for her baby rather distracts Horatio and Speed, whose gun is jammed, but a bullet-proof vest saves his life. Only SWAT sergeant Hollis is killed, but as ballistics later establishes from a distant spot. Horatio finds the woman isn't the baby's mother, she was hired by a drugs gang. CSI is suspected of tipping them off, especially after Calleigh tests positive for cocaine, but Horatio traces that to a nearby spot suitable for the sniper. The fiends even left one of their own, badly wounded Lester Cassidy, behind to die in Paul Tomassi's workshop after consulting suspended MD Guillermo Santoyo.

*This is one of David Caruso's favorite episodes from Season 1 as he gets to use his firearm in the opening teaser.

[ms-newvegas]

It really is crazy how we let people with no medical knowledge or training make huge medical decisions based purely on emotion. Literally how we end up torturing doctors and patients by insisting on futile care. Half of America can’t read at a high school level and they’re just out here making serious medical choices that can’t be overridden but CAN override the patients explicit wishes. Why! Most people are dumb as hell!

[the-bitch-in-the-tower]

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life

I’ve got my tumblr inbox turned off so I really have to commend the person who actually emailed me to let me know they don’t like the things I’ve posted about the UnitedHealth CEO being murdered on their commitment to their beliefs.

But seen as how you emailed me from a dud email that appears to be bouncing back replies and I really wanted to address something you said to me about violence begetting violence:

My migraine medication, the medication I was given for my debilitating neurological disease that has gotten so bad I spent most of this year actively suicidal, costs $1300 a month.

My insurance covered it. But only because my doctors office went to fucking war for me because I’m a high anaphylaxis risk for the drugs the insurance wanted me to try.

Because that’s the thing.

My doctors knew, based on my documented medical history, I likely wouldn’t be a good fit for the “first line” of preventative migraine drugs, but because of insurance, I had to be given drugs that were contradictory to my other life threatening conditions, because otherwise insurance wouldn’t cover anything else.

I failed them. Spectacularly and with an anaphylactic reaction to one of them. And I was still warned insurance would fight me because I hadn’t tried the remaining drug they wanted me to try.

A drug which I would have to take in an ER waiting room because my mast cell disease is unpredictable but insurance wouldn’t cover in-patient treatment to let me try it safely under medical supervision.

Is that not violence?

Were all the times I was denied coverage for vital and necessary procedures that could have prevented my disabilities from worsening not violence?

Maybe not in the sense you mean. But I assure you it felt very much like violence to me.

Do I condone murder? No, obviously. But I’m also sick and tired of people pretending that what is happening to the American people every day isn’t eugenics through class warfare.

Violence begets violence.

It sure fucking does.

Maybe these insurance companies should have thought of that first.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Pâques et le bébé de vingt-trois jours," La Patrie. April 21, 1943. Page 2. --- Emilien Rondeau, accusé d'avoir volé des cigarettes pour une valeur de $6.40 dans un entrepôt du C.N.R. pourra passer les fêtes de Pâques dans sa famille, grâce au juge Théberge qui a bien voulu remettre au 18 mai prochain la sentence qu'il devait prononcer contre l'accusé, lequel s'avoua coupable.

Rondeau est le père d'un fils de 23 jours et c'est afin de lui permettre de passer quelques semaines avec les siens qu'il obtint cette faveur.

Le juge Théberge a également rendu jugement dans la cause d'Albert Deslauriers, 4689 Resther, accusé de pratique illégale de la médecine. "Le prévenu, dit le tribunal, tenta de se défendre, mais ne réussit qu'à se condamner lui-même". Amende de $50 et les frais ou 2 mois de prison.

Mile M. Sullivan, accusée d'avoir violé la loi des conventions collectives, fut acquittée, faute de preuves, par le juge R. Théberge.

[leniisreallycool]

i cannot emphasize enough that you cannot give someone medical advice unless you're a certified practitioner of whatever medicine. as an herbalist i cannot prescribe anyone anything. i could literally go to prison and have a thousands of dollars fine for telling someone they should drink stinging nettle tea for their anemia if i don't clarify over and over that i am not a doctor and that my recommendation is just a recommendation and not a prescription and they should only follow my recommendation (not advice, that's too similar to what doctors do) after doing extensive research on the herb(s) and making sure it aligns with their needs.

[ms-demeanor]

are there really chiropractors out there right now who are claiming they can treat all that stuff?? im really actually asking because ive never seen anything like that at all, but obviously i might just be really lucky. i constantly see people saying chiropractors claim they can treat everything, and its just baffling to me. my chiropractor is pretty young (so maybe she just doesnt have the same attitude as older ones?) and went to med school for physical therapy before becoming a chiropractor, and shes the only doctor out of the dozens ive seen who already knew what hyper-mobile ehlers-danlos syndrome is before meeting me. shes never once said anything about treating anything at all beyond the issues in my back from my muscles going whack, and has actually suggested i see a physical therapist (and referred me to one) to strengthen my back so i dont have to see her very often. i assumed that was the normal experience with chiropractors, but did i just luck out? are the majority of chiropractors really insane and claiming they can cure diabetes and stuff?? thats so crazy to think about...

Just to clarify: your chiropractor is not a doctor. Having a doctorate in physical therapy does not make one an MD, having a DC degree does not make one an MD. People who become physical therapists go to school for physical therapy, but that wouldn't really be called medical school any more than getting a degree in nutrition would be called medical school.

I want to be very firm here because you're using the words "medical school" and "doctor" and that indicates to me that she IS claiming to be more than what she actually is, which is a chiropractor and possibly a physical therapist, both of which have requirements that pale in comparison to the training that MDs (or even nurse practitioners or physician's assistants) go through. But chiropractors really like to let people believe that they're doctors. They're not. They're chiropractors.

It's a very good thing that your chiropractor has told you to seek other care for your back pain; neck and spinal adjustments are potentially life threatening to people who don't have connective tissue disorders and are *extremely* dangerous and an even greater risk for people who DO have hypermobility issues (check out what @thebibliosphere has to say about chiropractic and EDS). A licensed physical therapist will be able to do much, much more for you than a chiropractor, and is a MUCH safer choice.

Now, all of that being said:

Yeah it's super common for chiropractors to claim they can treat all kinds of nonsense and when they're doing so it is probably technically illegal and if they actually treat stuff it's probably technically practicing medicine without a license and can be really fucking dangerous if it convinces people to forgo evidence-based treatment.

Here's a chiropractor in LA claiming to treat a laundry list of ailments:

Here's one also in LA county whose yelp photo is of her doing spinal manipulation on a baby (Literally never ever let a chiropractor treat your child it can no-shit kill them) and offering prenatal and perinatal care

Here's a guy in North Hollywood claiming to treat asthma and allergies with chiropractic:

It's not the majority of chiropractors, but it's more than you'd want.