Is this 'Practicing Medicine without a License?'

Factual Questions
1

Each day, I grow more and more disaffected with service people, and I include doctors in that.
Now, I think Emergency First Aid, stopping the bleeding, resetting bones, etc…is all well and good, but, anything longterm…well, you’re either a marked person (interpret that how you will) or you can straighten up by diet and exercise. If you’re on your way out, no doctor can save you.
No long term drugs. No radiation. No such thing as a real ‘chronic disease,’ only people that don’t exercise or eat properly.
Logical? Who’s to say?
Vague? Whoa, yes!
Realistic? Not even gonna think about it any more.
True? Well, to me.
Do I practice it? Well, when I do. Some times, I don’t.
Don’t need to be shown the light, just wanna know if I will get busted for saying things like:

  1. Ah, Drs. don’t know #!%@^& about the body.
  2. You can get well without a Dr. They’re probably the ones that slow your healing!
  3. Just take care of yourself, and you’ll never need a Dr. If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, and there’s not a thing that a Dr. can do to help you.
  4. So, who cares if you were healed in the hospital? You were going to get well anyway; the drs. just doped you up! (No specific case, just in generalities.)

And, I may be wrong, so, I would never say these things to anybody. Just want to know if it falls within the def. of the crime (e.g., ‘telling somebody they would get well anyway is diagnosing and practicing…’)

Thanks,
hh

2

To restate your question, you are asking if telling people something along the lines of your above four points would be practicing medicine without a license. Is that correct? If it is, I really can’t imagine a way that would be a legal issue.
As for the actual statements, I really can’t disagree more.

3

No. Practising medicine involves treating them, not reccomending them to avoid treatment.

You wouldn’t be doing them any favours by peddling nonsense like that, but you wouldn’t be practising medicine.

4

I agree with audiobottle: giving crappy BS advice about medical care isn’t considered “practicing medicine without a license”.

Not only that, but you have no fiduciary relationship with your audience, so if they get disseminated cervical cancer due to lack of a Pap smear, or end up hemiplegic due to hypertension-induced stroke, etc, they won’t even be able to sue you.

5

Yes.

You just did. :slight_smile:

6

Thanks for the input, guys.

hh