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physician

vr.tr.physician · SOC.PER

Let an agent handle physicians by specialty, licence and role, verify registration, and never act as a physician.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle physicians by specialty, licence and role, verify registration, and never act as a physician.

A medical doctor licensed to practise medicine, diagnosing and treating illness, in general practice or specialties such as surgery.

What it is for: Providing medical care.

It can be consult them; verify their registration; get referrals; complain to regulators.

Distinguishing features

Licensed to practise medicine

Specialties with separate training

Regulated by medical councils

Title use is protected in many countries

What it looks like

Known through clinics, hospitals and registers.

How it is recognised

Registration in medical registers

Titles such as Dr, consultant, chief surgeon

Celebrity doctors may not be practising

Related models

practises - discipline

medicine

works in - setting

hospital

is regulated by - licensing

medical council

is a kind of - occupation

health professional

In practice

Families and kinds

general practitioners

surgeons

physicians in medical specialties

psychiatrists

public health doctors

Identifiers

medical registration number jurisdiction-specific register

Standards and regulation

Medical practice acts

Professional codes of conduct

EU Professional Qualifications Directive

Failure modes and hazards

Impersonation of doctors

Agent presenting itself as a doctor

Out-of-date registration data

Also called

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Credentials Licence and specialty.

Credentials protect patients.

Licence

Registration.

Licence

Registration status.

  1. Is the doctor registered and licensed to practise? provenance
  2. How can it be checked? action

Specialty

Field.

Specialty

Specialty.

  1. What is their specialty? provenance
  2. Are they on a specialist register? provenance
Access Seeing a doctor.

People need routes to care.

Booking

Appointments.

Booking

How to book.

  1. How can an appointment be made? action
  2. Is urgent care needed instead? boundary

Referral

To specialists.

Referral

Referral pathway.

  1. Is a referral needed? definition
  2. Who can refer? definition
Conduct Standards.

Standards govern doctors.

Code

Ethics.

Code

Conduct rules.

  1. Which code of conduct applies? provenance
  2. What are patients entitled to? boundary

Complaints

Regulators.

Complaints

Complaint routes.

  1. How can a complaint be made? action
  2. Which regulator handles it? provenance
Agent limits Not a doctor.

Agents must not act as doctors.

Boundary

Information only.

Boundary

What agents may do.

  1. Is the user treating the agent as a doctor? boundary
  2. How should the agent redirect? action

Impersonation

Fake doctors.

Impersonation

Fake credentials.

  1. Could this person be falsely claiming to be a doctor? boundary
  2. How can their registration be checked? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should specialties be separate entries?
  • How should registration checks be linked?
  • How should agents present medical information without impersonation?
Draft as JSON