Practicing medicine without a license
In this article on AOL, a reporter tells of the death of a Brazilian immigrant at the hands of an unlicensed plastic surgeon. Apparently, the surgeon was unlicensed in the United States, but trained as a doctor someplace else; I got the impression from the article that he, too, had immigrated from a foriegn land (probably Brazil) as well. Because he was unlicensed here, he could not even obtain privileges to perform outpatient surgery (much less the privilege of admitting patients to the... Sign in to see full entry.