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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PS: If you are a restaurant owner, or run a bookstore, or are a mechanic shop, there is no licensing board to take that kind of complaint. Sure, someone can contact the BBB, but that's a poot in the wind and we all know it.

Medical licensure is taken differently. When I applied for a license in my current state, I had to attest to listing all complaints ever lodged against me, any time my license was put on probation (even if there was no substantiation found), if I'd ever been diagnosed with depression or other mental illness, etc. These things follow you.

I don't have a record of complaints or other issues like that, but I was denied licensure in one state because I did not fit their requirements (I had too long between completing my USMLE Step I and Step III, because I did a combined MD/PhD). That was a problem for this one state, but not others.

Now I have to disclose that I was denied that application for license and authorize this to be checked out for the rest of my career -- just for that. It can mean missing a job opportunity, if it takes too long. And that is merely because my exams were too far apart. It's a stupid problem, but I still get to deal with it.

Yeah, right, business owner deal with grumpy people all the time. That's not even on the same planet as medical providers trying to protect a license. Which is fine -- it's just not as trivial as you are trying to make it out to be.  [/quote]

There's the health department that can close a restaurant for violations and that is published online . For construction, plumbing and electrical businesses there are licensing requirements and in the state of Virginia for example, a customer can submit a complaint against a licensed business that shows up online. [/quote]

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