Both professions have the potential to save or destroy lives.
In both professions the participants encounter unusual pressures.
Boundaries are blurred this year by Gareth Gates, seemingly representing both professions.
Both professions require demanding preliminary courses and four years of doctoral studies.
Both professions have been involved in controversial strikes over the past 12 months.
Today, I worry less about the personality than the efficacy of both professions.
Both professions require a daily engagement with language, and programmers as well as writers search for clarity, expressiveness and elegance.
"I think she has managed to demean both professions with her hype, rabid persona, and sensational analysis," Professor Turley said.
As for the universities, they mainly trained lawyers and doctors, both professions in which supply considerably exceeded demand.
William Manchester was a newspaper reporter who became a history professor, and in this account of Kennedy's assassination he combines the highest standards of both professions.
But Gil — who was both a Marine and a high-school principal and has retained the flamboyant impudence of both professions — was not waiting for the paramedics.
