Article 5YJZW Go read this report about the virtual doctors at an NFT clinic who can’t legally give medical advice

Go read this report about the virtual doctors at an NFT clinic who can’t legally give medical advice

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If combining NFTs with the medical industry doesn't sound the most logical, this report from BuzzFeed News will likely confirm your skepticism. An NFT project called MetaDocs assigns doctors / influencers, like Dr. Pimple Popper, to (somewhat unsightly) cartoon personifications of themselves, which users can then purchase to gain access to one-on-one conversations, question-and-answer sessions, or DMs.

But despite MetaDocs' goal of cutting the red tape" that comes with gaining access to doctors, the MetaDocs themselves aren't legally able to give medical advice to NFT holders. As BuzzFeed points out, MetaDocs doesn't have a license to practice telemedicine, barring its doctors from giving medical advice, writing prescriptions, or...

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