{"id":37873,"date":"2019-10-16T22:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/?p=37873"},"modified":"2019-10-16T22:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T02:35:25","slug":"recommendations-regarding-the-illegal-practice-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/recommendations-regarding-the-illegal-practice-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations regarding the illegal practice of medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of the latest accusations of illegal practice of medicine against osteopaths and a massage therapist (non-member), a climate of insecurity has been felt in the field of massage therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The FQM wants to reassure you and provide more clarity. We maintain an excellent relationship with the Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins\u00a0and have repeatedly received their support for the regulation of massage therapy. Lets first state that a professional\u00a0order would, once and for all, establish clear and solid legal guidelines for our practice.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of a professional order,\u00a0to practice massage therapy in a legally safe manner, we had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Avis-juridique-pratique-illegale_EN.pdf\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Avis-juridique-pratique-illegale_EN.pdf\">legal opinion produced by a law firm<\/a>. This opinion reviews various issues that have been reported to us by our members.<\/p>\n<p>We have also created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Recommendations-illegal-exercice-of-medecine-EN.pdf\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Recommendations-illegal-exercice-of-medecine-EN.pdf\">table summarizing our recommendations<\/a> for the practice of massage therapy in the absence of a professional order. This one gives you an overview of the results of\u00a0our legal consultations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Recommendations-illegal-exercice-of-medecine-EN.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-d\u2019ecran-2019-10-16-a-21.53.52-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-d\u2019ecran-2019-10-16-a-21.53.52-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-d\u2019ecran-2019-10-16-a-21.53.52-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-d\u2019ecran-2019-10-16-a-21.53.52-730x555.png 730w, https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-d\u2019ecran-2019-10-16-a-21.53.52-275x209.png 275w, https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-d\u2019ecran-2019-10-16-a-21.53.52.png 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We remind you that the\u00a0lawsuits of the Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins against massage therapists are rare and if you take a closer look, these are understandable cases that fall outside the norm. We continue every day to promote the creation of a professional order\u00a0so that massage therapists can practice without worries.<\/p>\n<p>Join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/MaFQM\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/MaFQM\">FQM members&#8217;\u00a0Facebook group<\/a>\u00a0now to follow current discussions and share your thoughts with us!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of the latest accusations of illegal practice of medicine against osteopaths and a massage therapist (non-member), a climate of insecurity has been felt in the field of massage therapy. The FQM wants to reassure you and provide more clarity. We maintain an excellent relationship with the Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins\u00a0and have repeatedly received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37880,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37873\/revisions\/37880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fqm.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}