The Department Of State and the Board of Medicine want me to, essentially, go back to Medical School because I want to have my license reactivated. I had retired but it wasn't that long ago. The real reason why they want to discourage me is because of my age, 65. I am in excellent physical and mental health. It's discrimination no matter how one would like to cast it in another way. There are tons of thousands of physicians in the USA, older and younger than me, who haven't opened a book since Medical School. I should know since a lot of them are my friends. As far as CME credits, you would be a fool if you believe that busy doctor's go running home after being at their practice all day and run to dive into a CME course. Who is doing the work for them are their underpaid staff. Plus doctor's go on all expense paid vacation " Meetings" or week long Specialist Conventions sponsored by big Pharma and Health Insurance companys. In other words, I am just as qualified to practice medicine, right now, as your friendly alcoholic or drug addicted family doctor who has a copy of his license on the wall, gathering dust and rotting away. So, the hypocrisy and bigotry, not to leave out racism of the non-functional bureaucracies like the Bureau of Professional and Occupational etc. is naseating. They reissue licenses to some of the most dangerous professionals in the country. Case in point: the Obgyn doctor in West Philadelphia, who was suffocating live newborns was doing his goulish medical practice for over 10 years and the buffoons at the Bureau knew all about it. More horrifying is the FACT that they didn't care about the murders that he was commenting because his practice was in the ghetto and his clients were poor and people of color. So what is going on behind the closed doors of the "Bureau of...." ? I really believe that no one is home.