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Soup_or_Science posted...

Also, it doesn't take much in the way of "practicing medicine" to inject someone with a needle. It's basic shit. I would hardly argue you even need practice, and for what it's worth, all that would really be doing to "protect their profession" or whatever, is all the other monotonous BS they have to go through (such as working at a facility, etc) which is unnecessary shit anyway so.

The actual injection doesn't take a huge amount of expertise (though there are some nuances to it, namely making sure you aren't injecting an IM dose into a vein), but it is good to have the necessary knowledge to respond appropriately if something goes wrong. That gets quite a bit more complicated and often requires very quick decisions, which laypeople are rarely capable of (if the necessary equipment is even available).

In a similar vein, driving isn't exactly hard. Push gas to go, push brake to stop, turn wheel to steer, try not to hit anything. When driving does become more difficult, however, is when unusual situations or problems arise, and those take education, practice, and a knowledge of the law to resolve safely. As such, there's a licensing system for driving that makes sure people have been educated, have practiced, and know the law before they're allowed to drive. That system is... less than robust, in many cases, and road tests often don't actually test students' driving ability so much as they test their ability to follow a bunch of prescriptive rules that often *shouldn't* be followed in everyday driving (like "never speed ever"), but that's the basic theory, and it's reasonably sound.