Chart 39-1 · 12 min
Legal Shmegals
A read of this page, with the plate.


She called this part Legal Shmegals, and then she went back to the table. Under California Senate Bill 577, on the books as of 2003, unlicensed complementary work may sit if the paper sits and the eight don’ts sit. One: you do not conduct surgery, puncture the skin, or harmfully invade. Two: you do not administer or prescribe x-rays. Three: you do not prescribe or administer drugs or controlled substances. Four: you do not recommend the discontinuance of a drug a licensed practitioner named. Five: diagnose and treat are one statutory don’t — they stay off the tongue. Six: you do not set a fracture. Seven: you do not treat a laceration through electrotherapy. Eight: you do not hold out as a physician, a surgeon, or a physician and surgeon. Every time someone uses diagnose, treat, or prescribe for this work, you correct. Working with what the body tells you is not a diagnosis. It isn’t therapy either — otherwise the licensed therapists can string you up — and it isn’t medical, otherwise the doctors can absolutely string you up. You simply balance bioenergy fields. Nobody can string you up for that. She had that on good authority from the old Board, which used to be referred to, a little less than fondly, as Bomqua.
Practice
Say the eight don’ts out loud. Correct the first word that sat wrong. Kindly. Every time.
Check
The law on this hour:
- A medical board credential
- California SB 577 as of 2003 — eight don’ts ✓
- A dose you copy from a friend
Legal Shmegals. California’s door.
How many don’ts:
- Six
- Eight — skin, x-rays, drugs, discontinuance, two words, fracture, laceration, physician ✓
- Seven
Count them on Chart 39-1.
Diagnose and treat:
- Two statutory don’ts
- One statutory don’t — the two words ✓
- Allowed if you whisper
One don’t. Two words. Off the tongue.
Set a fracture:
- Buried under the skin
- Its own door — a break belongs with a doctor ✓
- Fine if the field is willing
A break belongs with a doctor.
Electrotherapy on a laceration:
- The skin door
- The cut — its own door ✓
- A complementary modality
A cut that needs closing belongs with a doctor.
A pharmaceutical already in a chart:
- Yours to unwrite
- A door you do not recommend discontinuance of — the bottle stays — this is the law ✓
- A dose you rename as a powder
Without judgment. Then the table.
You correct diagnose and treat because:
- Every time someone uses them for this work, you correct — working with the body is not a diagnosis ✓
- A blood titer is a doctor's number
- Class 01 said so
Kindly. Every time.
Hold out as a physician:
- Fine as a joke
- The letters — not on a card, not in a room, not as a joke ✓
- Allowed if Suzuki signs
Suzuki signed a BBC credential. That was not an MD.
X-rays:
- The skin
- The ray — a picture of bone belongs with a doctor ✓
- The cut
A picture of bone belongs with a doctor.
Puncture:
- The cut
- The skin — surgery, invade — one door ✓
- The break
The body-consciousness is not a thing you cut.