Why doesn Black Jack have a medical license?
There are two separate questions here, first why Black Jack persistently refuses to accept a medical license on the numerous occasions that he has been offered one throughout his adventures, (take issue #33 “Pug-nosed Patient” or #72, “Revenge,” as examples), and second, why he did not get a medical license in the first place when he finished medical school and did his internship. In general, Black Jack refuses to belong to any organization of any kind which might put any restrictions on his activities or demands on his time (see the Black Jack movie when he refuses to join even an humanitarian organization for the prevention of medical abuse.) More specifically, in the case of the world of medicine, by accepting a medical license he would be submitting to the rules of the international and Japanese organizations which regulate the activities of doctors. These rules, among other things, establish fixed maximums for what a doctor can charge for any given operation, maximums far lower th
