Yeah the licenses are retarded. Organization like AMA can instead do something useful and maintain a centralized database of every doctor, their case history, complaints, disciplinary actions, malpractice lawsuits etc. Let every average Joe google their doc and immediately see ama.org/directory/golberg-md and they can decide for themselves if he's good enough for them. There's so many shit doctors that the license is useless at this point as an indicator of competence, just drives up costs and slows everything down.