Serious question about dispensing medical advice.

[grumpyduck]

All these assholes that go on TV advocating for bullshit cures for Covid... are they not in fact dispensing medical advice without a license? And isn't that illegal?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Dispensing medical advice is illegal?

Lotta threads on here should be arrested.

[mopinko]

5. back in the day it was against the rules.

they get locked in health.

[relayerbob]

2. Not really criminally

But I'll tell you what, if I was a billionaire, I'd be freely dispensing funds to for people to sue the living crap out of them

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Have they ever arrested anyone for medical advice from YouTube?

Here's the baking soda molasses cancer cure.

Medical advice, as long as it's vague, prevents legal liability. Don't promise, and over-deliver.

[msongs]

4. Dr. Msongs offers free medical advice as needed lol nt

[Effete Snob]

6. Practicing medicine requires...

...a license, and a patient.

Going on TV and saying bullshit is not practicing medicine.

It's not practicing law either, but that doesn't stop people from saying inane legal stuff on TV too.

[marybourg]

7. They may be breaking FDA laws by touting products as treatments

for disease without FDA clearance, but such touting to a mass audience does not constitute practicing without a license. “Practicing” means giving individual advice, as a doctor would to a patient.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. The FDA Element

I worked on some things that required FDA approval because of claims made as an active agent or excipient function. (Example of the latter would be a structured lipid used to deliver liquid oral medications, or a monoglyceride used as a metabolizable emulsifier.)
I would think marketing or promoting it, not just selling it, would be a violation of the law.
Geez, we waited a year for approvals beyond when safety data was conclusive & obvious.
Nobody involved would even consider using it even though the approval was 99.9999% certain. Why?
It's against the law!

[marybourg]

9. The FDA has not been exercising their regulatory

authority against violators for the past many years. Just like the IRA with politicized churches. Nada.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Way Different Than 1990-2015

Because that's the period where my work was taking place that involved applications to the FDA.
In fact, one of my staff was a BS chemist & JD. She specialized in products & processes covered under FDA applications & EPA registrations.
She spent 75% of her time working in these products & enforcing cGMP requirements.
Perhaps it's because our company & our customers were respecting the laws.