Fee Splitting in The United Kingdom
Fee splitting and similar practices are considered unequivocally unacceptable for the medical profession in the United Kingdom.
The practice is considered unethical, and offenders can be disciplined and even "struck off the medical register". This is not to say that it does not happen.
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“..for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s very life.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:26.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 13:44.