Dichotomy means -
Dichotomy means fee splitting or bribery or commissioning.
Receiving commissions on referral of a patient to a doctor or forwarding commissions, both are included under dichotomy.
Dichotomy is infamous conduct as defined under the rules and regulations of MCI, 2002.
If a doctor repeatedly indulges in dichotomy, a warning notice could be issued against him, if he still indulges in dichotomy, his name could be erased from the medical register and it is called as professional death sentence.
Erasure of name
Disclosure of secrets of patients
Fee-splitting
Adultery