• Practicing Medicine without a License: When Patients and Politicians Play Doctor

    1 month ago - By THCB

    BY MICHAEL KIRSCH
    We've all heard the adage, leave it to the professionals. It's typically used when an individual has wandered out of his lane. How many folks go beyond their knowledge and skills with home projects, for example, who must then hire a real professional to mop up the mistakes? Luckily for me, the only tools that I - a gastroenterologist - know how to use are a colonoscope and an endoscope, so there's no chance that I will be tempted to perform any plumbing or electrical tasks at home.
    Although patients are not medical professionals, they routinely bring me results of their...
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