David Owen stopped practising clinical medicine as an anaesthetic registrar
in the early 60s, to concentrate on his political career, but I didn't see
anyone leaping up and down telling him to stop calling himself a doctor.
He's a Lord now anyway so the question is immaterial.
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julian Bradley
> >Question: the law says you cannot call yourself a doctor unless GMC
> >registered. The GMC says each doctor will be licenced in their sphere of
> >practice. In my case (and others), that sphere of practice is
> >informatics. Will I still be able to call myself 'doctor', or does the
> >GMC interpretation of the law applies only to 'clinically active'
doctors?
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