Tina Moore
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You hold a license to diagnose. The difference between real doctors and not doctors is the difference.
You hold a license to diagnose. The difference between real doctors and not doctors is the difference.
the actual ability and the necessity and the responsibility to diagnose it's the privilege of diagnosis they call it it means that we diagnose meaning we take responsibility for what we find in our testing and our history and however we approach the patient we have to do a history a physical exam run diagnostic testing and then we are responsible for that diagnosis
the actual ability and the necessity and the responsibility to diagnose it's the privilege of diagnosis they call it it means that we diagnose meaning we take responsibility for what we find in our testing and our history and however we approach the patient we have to do a history a physical exam run diagnostic testing and then we are responsible for that diagnosis
the actual ability and the necessity and the responsibility to diagnose it's the privilege of diagnosis they call it it means that we diagnose meaning we take responsibility for what we find in our testing and our history and however we approach the patient we have to do a history a physical exam run diagnostic testing and then we are responsible for that diagnosis
Non-health professionals don't have that. The other thing is, is that we are licensed. There are a lot of health professionals out there who are non-licensed, meaning there's no licensing board holding them accountable. The licensing board is not there to protect the doctors. The licensing board is there to protect the public against the doctors screwing up.
Non-health professionals don't have that. The other thing is, is that we are licensed. There are a lot of health professionals out there who are non-licensed, meaning there's no licensing board holding them accountable. The licensing board is not there to protect the doctors. The licensing board is there to protect the public against the doctors screwing up.
Non-health professionals don't have that. The other thing is, is that we are licensed. There are a lot of health professionals out there who are non-licensed, meaning there's no licensing board holding them accountable. The licensing board is not there to protect the doctors. The licensing board is there to protect the public against the doctors screwing up.
And so we have licensing boards that we are held accountable to. If we want to hold that license, we have to pay a fee every year for that license. It's quite expensive. We have to, you know, if you want a DEA license, which I hold, I get accused of not being a real doctor. I'm like, well, then how did I get a DEA license? That's a drug enforcement agency license.
And so we have licensing boards that we are held accountable to. If we want to hold that license, we have to pay a fee every year for that license. It's quite expensive. We have to, you know, if you want a DEA license, which I hold, I get accused of not being a real doctor. I'm like, well, then how did I get a DEA license? That's a drug enforcement agency license.
And so we have licensing boards that we are held accountable to. If we want to hold that license, we have to pay a fee every year for that license. It's quite expensive. We have to, you know, if you want a DEA license, which I hold, I get accused of not being a real doctor. I'm like, well, then how did I get a DEA license? That's a drug enforcement agency license.
I hold that license and I have to pay for that every two years. You have to be a real doctor to get that. I drop four-inch needles into people's spines. I can prescribe virtually every drug on the formulary out there, aside from like a few different ones that we can't prescribe in Oregon. But in Oregon, we have a very broad scope. I can do minor surgery.
I hold that license and I have to pay for that every two years. You have to be a real doctor to get that. I drop four-inch needles into people's spines. I can prescribe virtually every drug on the formulary out there, aside from like a few different ones that we can't prescribe in Oregon. But in Oregon, we have a very broad scope. I can do minor surgery.
I hold that license and I have to pay for that every two years. You have to be a real doctor to get that. I drop four-inch needles into people's spines. I can prescribe virtually every drug on the formulary out there, aside from like a few different ones that we can't prescribe in Oregon. But in Oregon, we have a very broad scope. I can do minor surgery.
I'm not going to sit here and try to prove myself, but we are trained as real doctors, I promise you. But there are fake NDs, fake naturopathic doctors. And there are NDs in unlicensed states. And so it gets very confusing. That's what we're going to get into today. I'm just trying to explain what the foundation is. So I went through two programs nearly completely.
I'm not going to sit here and try to prove myself, but we are trained as real doctors, I promise you. But there are fake NDs, fake naturopathic doctors. And there are NDs in unlicensed states. And so it gets very confusing. That's what we're going to get into today. I'm just trying to explain what the foundation is. So I went through two programs nearly completely.
I'm not going to sit here and try to prove myself, but we are trained as real doctors, I promise you. But there are fake NDs, fake naturopathic doctors. And there are NDs in unlicensed states. And so it gets very confusing. That's what we're going to get into today. I'm just trying to explain what the foundation is. So I went through two programs nearly completely.
There was very little overlap in my credits. So very little of my credits from one school transferred to the other because they were so vastly different. And so I went through two entire programs. medical program trainings. And I sat for two entirely separate sets of board exams. And I sat for two separate sets of licensing exams.
There was very little overlap in my credits. So very little of my credits from one school transferred to the other because they were so vastly different. And so I went through two entire programs. medical program trainings. And I sat for two entirely separate sets of board exams. And I sat for two separate sets of licensing exams.
There was very little overlap in my credits. So very little of my credits from one school transferred to the other because they were so vastly different. And so I went through two entire programs. medical program trainings. And I sat for two entirely separate sets of board exams. And I sat for two separate sets of licensing exams.