Health?s investigation revealed these ways in which both unqualified doctors and board-certified plastic surgeons can be dangerous: Inappropriate procedures Sometimes, Dr. Zins says, refusing to perform surgery is the best medicine if a patient is going through a divorce, for instance, or is dealing with depression.

The law, they said, allows unqualified doctors with no specialized training to perform abortions.

In September 1998, for example, the doctors charge, one unqualified doctor mistakenly identified a brain hemorrhage in a patient who did not have one, and failed to diagnose such a hemorrhage in another patient.

The criminal accusation against Dr. Hah again raises the issue of abortions performed by unqualified doctors.

In the evening I had an interview with Mr Mackenzie, who was suffering a good deal from his wounds, which Good, who was a skilful though unqualified doctor, was treating him for.

A few weeks later Virenque's name emerged in an inquiry into Bernard Sainz, the so-called Dr Mabuse of cycling who was later jailed for practising as an unqualified doctor.

This was almost as bad as if they had been allowing an unqualified doctor to practise.

There are also concerns that the absence of proximity leads to treatment by unqualified doctors or patients using false information to secure dangerous drugs.

The team official caring for him was Bernard Sainz, sentenced to three years in 2008 for doping athletes and practising as an unqualified doctor.

Health officials discovered 35 tiny bones and at least eight skulls at an illegal nursing home run by an unqualified doctor in a suburb south of New Delhi, investigators said Thursday.