{"id":2691,"date":"2016-04-25T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2016-04-25T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:25:50","slug":"what-is-psc-d-or-d-psc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"What is PSC.D or D.PSc?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastoral Medical Association gives out pastoral provider licenses to those alternative health practitioners that practice \u201cbible-based\u201d health care; this is not a medical license or a medical degree.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Medical Board has sent out a dozen cease and desist orders to people using their pastoral medicine certification to sell dubious supplements promising to treat a range of illness.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/04\/25\/475165193\/pastoral-medicine-credentials-raise-questions-in-texas?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=28835550&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_wZtFBLIb2jVYKqvDFIyxEJ6NM7jokBRjqX1nH6VDxHnVCuS9487bkyaZt-7Wthi7KMIzACtnUYExUkOvZ1SIx3HnRkQ&amp;_hsmi=28835550\" target=\"_blank\"> Read article here\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastoral Medical Association gives out pastoral provider licenses to those alternative health practitioners that practice \u201cbible-based\u201d health care; this is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}