Re:North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about...
by beerandt on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:44PM
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>Is giving a speech about how to treat a broken bone considered ‘practicing medicine’?
For many (most?) states, this is a determination spelled out broadly by law, and left up to the licensing board itself to implement, interpret, administer, and enforce.
So the answer, in those states, is:
"Practicing engineering is whatever the state licensing board says it is."
Regardless of whether it is, you can really tell the hypocrisy. Medicine is a vastly more protected profession than engineer. The article states about 80% of engineers nationwide work legally without a license. That would be unthinkable for any form of medical work.
And yet, there are vastly more people giving out medical advice without a license, and even performing all kinds of quack procedures like faith healing as replacement for medical science.
Some retired engineer talking about his profession while technically not having a license is an absolutely minuscule problem, if it even is one, compared to the reprehensible alternative medicine industry.