Most of the time this question has some thought in mind that should a doctor charge fee on consultancy from colleagues or relatives. Let us have fair views on this point. When in the case of some illness a doctor takes consultancy from the doctor may be the colleague or not have any intimacy with the consultant, is it envisaged in medical ethics not to take consultancy fee in spite of the knowledge that client is the doctor or should charge?

A second situation like if a doctor who gets the consultation from a colleague or says known then should the doctor pay the consultancy fee to the colleague? There are some examples not to blame anyone but the question always hovers in mind for that I could not get the satisfactory answer. We, doctors, are also human beings and not 100% immune to communicable or non-communicable diseases and once or more had to get consultancy from a doctor and it…