"[t]elemedical practice...easily crosses state lines, but physician licensure does not"

http://www.archivesofpathology.org/doi/pdf/10.5858/arpa.2013-0258-ED

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2013 Jun 5. [Epub ahead of print]

Digital Pathology and Federalism.

Allen TC.

Telemedicine’s physician licensure problem, simply put, is that ‘‘[t]elemedical practice is not limited by geographic boundaries and easily crosses state lines, but physician licensure does not.’’26 And ‘‘[p]rofessional licensure has traditionally been a matter left to the regulation of the states.’’29