Binyamin Rothstein expects to re-establish his medical practice in the United States during 2016, after having practiced in Israel since 2012.

Many American Jews have moved to Israel since its establishment as a Jewish homeland in 1948. At first the reasons were entirely pragmatic: immigrants were fleeing worldwide anti-Semitism. More recently the trend toward immigration to Israel, known as aliyah, has grown to include those with affluent lives. The Land of Israel is the Jewish homeland, promised to the descendants of Abraham.

While that is important to Dr. Rothstein, there was a far more practical reason. After establishing himself as a leading Osteopathic Physician in Baltimore his license to practice medicine was revoked in 2005 following a long dispute with the Maryland Board of Physicians. While ostensibly a consequence of his failure to order a battery of unnecessary and expensive tests for a patient he had successfully treated, he and his supporters were convinced the license revocation was due to his use of so-called “alternative therapies.”

“It is obvious the Maryland Board revoked Dr. Rothstein’s license solely because it perceived Binyamin Rothstein was trying to circumvent its imposition upon him to practice boilerplate medicine,” wrote Judge Sander Goldberg, a judge in the Maryland tax court. “I have heard from reliable sources that if the Board had its druthers, it would completely prohibit the practice of ‘Complementary and Alternative Medicine.’” Dr. Rothstein, he said, is “a brilliant practitioner of medicine” whom he had known for more than fifteen years.

Two months after moving his family to Israel, Dr. Rothstein was granted a license to practice in Pennsylvania. He had applied for it five years earlier. Since he had gone to such effort to relocate, he and his family decided to stay for the foreseeable future.

Binyamin Rothstein says that in his practice, the patient always comes first. “I can’t renege on my integrity, and what it takes to treat somebody. And I’ve had to pay a price for that. I’m willing to pay a price, because integrity is more important than the game. People come to me for help and expect integrity and intellectual honesty, and that is what I have and will always deliver.”

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