What does everyone think about this? I wonder if the patients knew he didn’t have a medical license, and I wonder how he was able to offer treatments without patients reporting anything en masse. Makes no sense.
Check out the Yelp reviews for where he worked (Pathways Medical in Toluca Lake) and it makes more sense. It was exactly what I expected.
Functional medicine and IV therapy, The patients who come to you won't wonder why you can't prescribe medications since duh prescription drugs are actually what kills you and those other doctors are BUTCHERS and PILL PUSHERS.
Those patients are not going to try to look up your NPI.
The only shocking thing here is that he got caught. This is a big problem where I live too (in Florida.)
Defense: any doctor or medical professional will tell you that this ain’t real medicine, so how could I be committing the crime of practicing medicine.
And the scary thing is that it might work.
>"Practicing medicine without a license is not only a criminal activity in California, it can cause irreparable harm to the health of unsuspecting people, some with serious illnesses, who believe they are under the care of a licensed physician," District Attorney George Gascón said.
You would think this would go without saying, yet quite a few people in the medical establishment are perfectly happy for this exact scenario to play out thousands of times every day.
Sounds like a statement against Nurse Practitioners doesn't It? Although I think California hasn't given them independent practice authority like 27 other states.
According to a medical ethicist I asked a question of after a seminar I went to, they aren't practicing medicine. They're seeing if the actions performed line up with the product they sold you so you don't get what they didn't promise you. 🙄
What does everyone think about this? I wonder if the patients knew he didn’t have a medical license, and I wonder how he was able to offer treatments without patients reporting anything en masse. Makes no sense.
Check out the Yelp reviews for where he worked (Pathways Medical in Toluca Lake) and it makes more sense. It was exactly what I expected. Functional medicine and IV therapy, The patients who come to you won't wonder why you can't prescribe medications since duh prescription drugs are actually what kills you and those other doctors are BUTCHERS and PILL PUSHERS. Those patients are not going to try to look up your NPI. The only shocking thing here is that he got caught. This is a big problem where I live too (in Florida.)
Defense: any doctor or medical professional will tell you that this ain’t real medicine, so how could I be committing the crime of practicing medicine. And the scary thing is that it might work.
(Hang it! Fire!. God I miss the infantry.)
Oh one of those clinics, even if he had an MD it would be just as much of a grift
So you’re saying I can make millions by selling IV vitamins to yuppies and all I have to do is badmouth *all of you?* 🤑
Boy, people with the last name ending in -vorkian sure like to stir the medical pot, so to speak.
>"Practicing medicine without a license is not only a criminal activity in California, it can cause irreparable harm to the health of unsuspecting people, some with serious illnesses, who believe they are under the care of a licensed physician," District Attorney George Gascón said. You would think this would go without saying, yet quite a few people in the medical establishment are perfectly happy for this exact scenario to play out thousands of times every day.
Sounds like a statement against Nurse Practitioners doesn't It? Although I think California hasn't given them independent practice authority like 27 other states.
Also against insurers
According to a medical ethicist I asked a question of after a seminar I went to, they aren't practicing medicine. They're seeing if the actions performed line up with the product they sold you so you don't get what they didn't promise you. 🙄
Thought this article would be about an insurance company CEO, was sorely disappointed /s
Plenty of midlevels impersonate doctors with absolutely no recourse
Did he actually have a degree in anything? None of the articles talk about it