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FRAUDULENT OR INEPT MEDICAL PRACTICE INVOLVING UNTESTED OR REFUTED TREATMENTS, PROMOTED PROFESSIONALLY OR PUBLICLY
Quack medicine; Medicaster; Health fraud; Medical quackery; Quack doctor; Voodoo medicine; Quack medicines; Medical fraud; Quacksalvers; Quackeries; Medical hoaxes; Medical hoax; Quacksalver; Healthcare fraud; Health quackery; Quackademic medicine; Quack (medicine); Quack cure; List of people accused of quackery; Quack remedy; Quackademia

Quackery         
·noun The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
Medicaster         
·noun A Quack.
Quacksalver         
·noun One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.

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Quackery

Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, qualification or credentials they do not possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve". In the Middle Ages the term quack meant "shouting". The quacksalvers sold their wares at markets by shouting to gain attention.

Common elements of general quackery include questionable diagnoses using questionable diagnostic tests, as well as untested or refuted treatments, especially for serious diseases such as cancer. Quackery is often described as "health fraud" with the salient characteristic of aggressive promotion.