Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Credentials, State vs. private Message-ID: <750@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 11:01:34 EDT Article-I.D.: cybvax0.750 Posted: Fri Sep 13 11:01:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 07:36:39 EDT References: <1208@ihlpg.UUCP> <4297@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 In article <4297@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes: > In a free society, if you wanted to know whether your doctor had > gone to medical school, you would ask. If you didn't get a > satisfactory answer, you could go elsewhere. The only role the > government would play is that if the answer you got were a lie, > you could press fraud charges. When you are struck by a car, I will be happy to bring you to the nearest medical practicioner I can find. If he specializes in acupuncture or voodoo, well, you should have asked. The fact is, that people frequently need immediate medical attention, in situations where we are coerced by circumstances, where we cannot practically choose. For those circumstances, I want regulation. Either specific certification for emergencies, or a more general regulation. -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh