<p>I think people who want their manicurists performing podiatry and their facialists removing potentially malignant growths on their face should absolutely be able to do that. But for the rest of us… who would like some measure of assurance that a medical professional has met some minimum standard… back off. Every year there are sad stories of someone who died because her hairdresser gave her botox or whatever. And every year the folks who want the option to choose show up to claim that we have over-regulated the medical profession. Go ahead and get whatever procedure you want in the privacy of someone’s basement… but the licensing is there to protect the rest of us.</p>