Leading doctors call for legal protection of surgeon title
Leading doctors are calling on the government to legally protect the title "surgeon".
A Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) poll of 2,000 people found 95% expect someone using the title "surgeon" to be medically qualified.
There are no restrictions on who can use the title - but the RCS wants only those with a medical degree and surgical training to be able to do so.
But others who use the title defended their right to do so.
The BBC's Simon Clemison reports.
15 Jul 2012