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Kyrn
post Sep 18 2007, 03:49 PM
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In a place like UCAS, does the government still issue licenses to be things like doctors, lawyers, etc? If they do, do big corps care, or do they license on their own. Because of extrataratoriatality, would a big corp hire a doctor if they liked him even if he had been striped of a license by the local government?

IIRC, credentials for lawyers and doctors are issued by thier peer review bodies, not governments. So, the AMA in the case of doctors, and the state Bar in the case of lawyers. Once stripped of credentials, a megacorp *could* hire them and put them to work anyway, but the ex-whatever would lose the respect of any credentialed doctor/lawyer out there, and a fair number would simply flat-out refuse to work with them.

So, to answer your question based on current trends, I doubt that a megacorp would hire a disbarred or defrocked lawyer or docror without extremely good reason; and even then, they'd probably have to conceal the fact. Dr. Halberstam comes immediately to mind for this sort of thing, and even he had to be renamed: "Shalbramat" in order to function.

Point of note, the AMA has dick to do with being a liscensed, accredited doctor and more to do with acting as a de facto union for doctors.
Licensing is a state by state case, handled by the local state medical licensing board.
Also, Bar associations handle credentials for lawyers, also State by State basis.

If you become discredited in one state and striped of your license, you can actually just move to another state that is less friendly with that state and apply for new credentials. It's rare you'll get it, but YMMV.

Actually lawyers are governed by both State Bar Associations and the American Bar Association. If disbarred, that lawyer is never practicing law again in any state in the Union. Lawyers being disbarred also frequently get the federal court system involved through Constitutional issues (of course it helps that every judge in the federal courts is also a member of the bar).
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post Sep 18 2007, 03:57 PM
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...momentary derail. On the Dumpshock Forums page the title for this thread this keeps showing up as Strange question about lice... grinbig:
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