Probably patient’s first impression of doctor’s credibility is the list of degrees added to his prescription or on the signboard outside his/her clinic, especially for a non-native person who has no idea about the doctor’s reputation and expertise. In my experience this weakness of patients is highly exploited by quacks. They add fictitious degrees and accreditations to promote their practice and general people get distracted and misguided by those false credentials very easily.
In this context my questions are as follows: Should we keep copies of all our certificates for degree and medical registrations ready with our clinic? If not that much, as a responsible practitioner, should we more explicitly display our medical registration number on clinic signboard in addition to printing it on our prescriptions, so that a patient can verify the authenticity before coming to us? Is there any…
