Certificates have become an integral part of life in modern time and medical certificates are one of them and important too. Life starts with birth certificate and ends with a death certificate, with many certificates in between. Medical certificates are necessary for some civil and criminal matters. Some of the certificates to be valid have to be issued by specialists of the concerned specialties. Doctors have various duties apart from treating the patient.
Issuing certificates is one of them. Medical Council of India, the apex body that controls medical profession in all aspects in India, lists different types of certificates or reports in various situations to be issued by a doctor. Of all the branches of medicine, psychiatry differs in a variety of ways. Psychiatry patients are different unlike other patients. They have to be protected from not only others but also themselves…
