Actually, MB. I am not sure exactly what it is your disagreeing with.  I have left the profession on sabatical of a kind some time ago.  I think what you are refering to here is not about being helpful on a message board, but of having some kind of issue with proprietory license.    "Massage Therapist should AVOID mission creep into credentials beyond their scope of training. Point that clieant patient immediately to an emergency room or a physician"   This I believe sums up your statement.     There seems to be this erroneous basis in health care, and many other professions, that if one has the intelligence and capacity then one would have sought out the appropriate credentials for their cast.  Training and experience are things that colleges only try to encapsulate, but real life offers such a bounty far beyond such lines that any intelligent observor and researcher may cross.  Science, actually is about methodology and anyone has the right to participate.  leaving the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario means that I no longer require to adhere and be bound to the persona of which being part of a college requires.  For those reading let it be known that professional colleges require things of their memberships whereby some rights necessariy are discarded when taking on the legal persona of the college.  The posting here is in reference not to my posting but to my right to say it, under the heading of "scope of practice"    With the medical industry coming up with computers that will diagnose illness, all the while preaching that their brand of healthcare is not a kind of recipe book i can see why they might feel threatened.