Such arguments can, however, be turned around against doctors of all kinds. Thus the future looks bright for lay homeopaths. The only cloud on the horizon seems to be the faint possibility of homeopathic doctors threatening to try and get politicians to legislate against lay practitioners. However, the evidence of wider medical abuse of patients within regular medicine is probably much more widespread and easier to prove. Homeopathy has become a very lucrative side-line for doctors and in that sense is thusfar completely unregulated.
Any doctor can currently choose to practise homeopathy without a single qualification in it.
Lay homeopaths would point this out and demand the tighter regulation of those doctors who choose to practice homeopathy. So the real danger is that any mud they might throw at lay homeopaths may well end up on their own faces. However, we can probably say with some conviction that it is an occupation that is currently undergoing that process which will transform it into a profession. And that is most definitely a profession, in the fullest meaning of the term.