Control of Medical Profession — Functions of the Commission/Councils under the following Acts

You can start a tea stall with a licence from the municipal office. You cannot start practising as a surgeon by putting up a board. Somebody has decided who may be called a doctor, which degrees count, who may be struck off, and what a doctor may and may not do. In India that somebody is not one body but several, each for its own system of medicine. What does it mean to 'control' a profession, and who does it?

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The medical profession is controlled by statutory bodies, a commission or council for each system of medicine, which regulate education, recognise qualifications, keep the register of practitioners and discipline misconduct.

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