Putting a pause to the tug-of-war between physicians and physiotherapists over the use of the prefix ‘Dr,’ the Madras High Court has asked the authorities to take action against persons who use the prefix in their prescriptions and advertisements without a valid medical degree.
Passing orders on a writ petition filed by the Indian Medical Association’s Quackery Eradication Committee, the first bench comprising Chief Justice HL Gokhale and Justice KK Sasidharan said the IMA must furnish details of people prescribing allopathic medicines and administering allopathic treatment and using the prefix ‘Dr’ to the authorities.
The state government had passed an order last year that a physiotherapist cannot use the prefix ‘Dr’ and should not prescribe drugs.
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