I have sponsored a bill in the State Assembly to prohibit health care professionals licensed in New York from participating in torture or improper treatment of a prisoner.
Additionally, he prosecuted several hundred businesses and professionals licensed by the State for unprofessional conduct, violations of criminal statutes, gross negligence, consumer fraud, white-collar crimes, and other misdeeds.
The Assembly's bill, which has 45 co-sponsors and could be voted on as soon as Friday, would bar all health professionals licensed in New York from participating, directly or indirectly, in torture or other abuses no matter where they happen.
Oriental medicine in the U.S. now consists of more than 22,000 professionals licensed in over 40 states, national certification under the U.S. Dept. of Education, more than 50 accredited graduate schools, and many professional associations at the state and national level (2).
Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the Tele-Med Act of 2013, which would enabled health care professionals licensed in one state to provide care to Medicare patients across state lines electronically.
The AAPA definition of the profession is " Physician assistants are health professionals licensed or, in the case of those employed by the federal government, credentialed, to practice medicine with physician supervision.
