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physician

vr.tr.physician · thing-q39631

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

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.PER
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Credentials Licence and specialty.

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.

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.

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.

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

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Society, people and institutions
Entry kind
thing
Plane
SOC
Domain
SOC.PER
Other names and narrower kinds
male physician, woman physician, chief surgeon, Iatromantis, Rampō physician, celebrity doctor, prisoner doctor, military physician, medical physicist, myologist, malariologist, naval surgeon

What it is Filled

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

Why it exists Filled

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

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Licensed to practise medicine
  • Specialties with separate training
  • Regulated by medical councils
  • Title use is protected in many countries

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Impersonate a physician or claim medical qualifications.
  • Override a physician's clinical judgement or prescriptions.
  • Share patient data outside the care team.
  • Rate physicians publicly on unverified claims.

Only with a human decision

  • Any clinical decision about a patient.

May

  • Help patients find and contact licensed physicians.
  • Support a physician with notes and literature they review.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Patients trust physicians with their lives and secrets.
  • Physicians face burnout and violence.

Who is affected

  • Patients
  • Physicians

Owners Filled

Steward

The physician answers for their practice; the medical council licenses them.

Master systems

  • Medical registers of licensed physicians

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q11974939 - registry parent class

related

  • medicine - discipline
  • hospital - setting
  • medical council - licensing
  • health professional - occupation

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.physician
  • Wikidata: Q39631 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39631)
  • medical registration number: jurisdiction-specific register

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Registration in medical registers
  • Titles such as Dr, consultant, chief surgeon
  • Celebrity doctors may not be practising
  • Known through clinics, hospitals and registers.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • consult them
  • verify their registration
  • get referrals
  • complain to regulators

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Impersonation of doctors
  • Agent presenting itself as a doctor
  • Out-of-date registration data

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Medical practice acts
  • Professional codes of conduct
  • EU Professional Qualifications Directive

Context of use required Filled

  • Providing medical care.
  • general practitioners
  • surgeons
  • physicians in medical specialties
  • psychiatrists
  • public health doctors

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q39631: physician - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Medical doctor - general description of the item

Open questions

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

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q39631/spec.json