<prompt> Dichotomy means -Erasure of nameDisclosure of secrets of patientsFee-splittingAdultery  <response>: 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. 