Sentence examples for clinical turf from inspiring English sources
Once, physicians were guarded about the role of retail health clinics and pharmacies in treading on their clinical turf.
The representatives of partner societies were asked to present the organisation of IR in their countries/areas, education and training in IR, research in IR, professional status of IR, and relations between IR and general radiology in clinical practice, turf battles, and the percentage of work-time of radiologists spent in IR.
Pinochet Tejos, spoke about the organisation of IR in Latin America, about education and training, research, about professional status and the relationship between interventional and general radiology in clinical practice, about turf battles and the percentage of work time spent in IR.
Radiologists are dependent on referrals from others and many imaging modalities are very attractive for other professions; other physicians tend to provide their own imaging services in their respective subspecialty clinical areas and turf battles are a reality for radiologists worldwide.
It has also been used in some countries to compensate for manpower shortages and when used in a proactive and controlled fashion may help to avoid loosing turf to clinical colleagues.
Turf battles between radiologists and clinical specialists affect all aspects of medical imaging in wards and clinics.
One of the main reasons why radiologists are losing many turf issues is their inadequate clinical culture.
Subspecialization improves the standing of radiology as a specialty, enriches radiologists' armamentarium in turf battles, provides a stronger basis for clinical research, and supports recruitment of students into radiology.
Davies is a psychologist, and to the outsider the fierceness of his attack might be dismissed as part of a turf war among the psy professions (Irving Kirsch is a clinical psychologist as well).
A survey on clinical practice in IR among CIRSE members has shown that in Europe turf battles and lack of clinical practice in IR represent a major threat in most countries.
