No reference made to medical doctors

Joseph A. Muscat appears to have entirely misunderstood what he classifies as my "final gratuitous remark" when he seems almost to have fallen over himself to tell us how the medical profession is regulated (How The Doctors Do It, March 19).

The remark to which Prof. Muscat refers was in connection with the regulation of the legal profession and was in the sense that the Chamber of Advocates "has at its disposal means that are certainly more effective when the behaviour of advocates is being censured, than is the case in other areas not unconnected with the law".

Precisely why Prof. Muscat, at least as it appears, took this as a reference to his profession is, not to put too fine a point on it, beyond me. Perhaps it was the use of the double-negative in the phrase "not unconnected with the law" that foxed him, but he can rest assured that I was not referring to the medical profession.