There are very few British doctors practising in Japan, but some Japanese doctors will have had experience abroad and may speak English.

Carlos Logario was a Spanish doctor practising in England in the 16th century.

If a doctor offers a risky and as yet scientifically unproved treatment the GMC surely owes it to the public either to stop the doctor offering that treatment (outside scientifically valid trials) or to stop the doctor practising at all.

Cartwright's study in the early 1960s showed that doctors practising in middle-class areas not only had smaller lists of patients than their colleagues in working-class areas but they were also better trained and they had better contacts with hospitals.

Ontario residents may go to a participating doctor-essentially every doctor practising in the province-any time they wish (subject to the consent of the doctor) and the services are billed through OHIP to the government.

All his seven children, sons and daughters, are medical doctors practising in the US.

Two "Beaton" families were hereditary doctors practising in Mull and Skye.

Karin Cutter is a naturopathic doctor practising in New South Wales, Australia.

The Faculty of Homoeopathy produces a list of all homoeopathic doctors practising in this country and abroad with indications as to whether they are private or NHS practitioners.

There were also extra payments for doctors practising in deprived or isolated areas, target payments encouraging GPs to achieve higher levels of cover for childhood immunisation and cervical screening, and incentives for the provision of minor surgery and health promotion clinics.