Dichotomy means -

Dichotomy means fee splitting or bribery or commissioning. Receiving commissions on referral of a patient to a doctor or forwarding commissions, both are included under dichotomy. Dichotomy is infamous conduct as defined under the rules and regulations of MCI, 2002. If a doctor repeatedly indulges in dichotomy, a warning notice could be issued against him, if he still indulges in dichotomy, his name could be erased from the medical register and it is called as professional death sentence.