IJME2019-09-252019-09-252015-12-2819950975-5691http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/232178"In the past few years, Indian doctors have often been asked this question. In the present context of commercialised medical practice, there is a strong public feeling that doctors have become traders. Doctors, on the other hand, have reacted in a contradictory manner. Some have found the label ‘trader’ offensive and refuse to participate in any debate on the subject. Others have, at least implicitly, accepted that a large part of present day medical practice is nothing but trading by qualified as well as non-qualified medical technicians"engWith permission of the license/copyright holdermedical practicetradersmedical ethicsLawPolitical ethicsMethods of ethicsBioethicsMedical ethicsArticle