The local government has the power to withdraw his licence to practise medicine in Germany and the hearing could be held in days.

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Doctors are placed on the register or given a license to practise medicine after they graduate from university or, if they trained abroad, after passing an exam set by the GMC.

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One way to ease their difficulties, they decided, was to practise preventative medicine.

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The paucity of family doctors naturally has a particularly strong impact on rural communities, which are home to around one-fifth of America's population but only one-tenth of its doctors, most of whom practise family medicine.

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Many people practise customary law alongside the Western kind and take traditional as well as Western medicine.

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