So if Plato does not intend for us to think of the Republic's ideal city as a serious goal worth striving for, something other than Socrates' explicit professions must reveal this to us.
This explicit coupling of professions with tasks belies the fact that registered professionals often perform tasks that are outside their accepted repertoire [ 87] and deliver tasks that have a limited evidence base including the use of natural therapies [ 85].
In our two focus groups, recurring themes included an explicit dislike across the professions for multiple different charts being used for the same patient.
These resolutions lauded naturopathic physicians' potential contributions while also giving that profession its first explicit, formal recognition in any Congressional act.
This renewed interest has resulted in an accelerated expansion of a range of initiatives within and outside the nursing profession to make explicit those aspects of care outcomes directly attributable to nursing practice.
Our profession has an explicit commitment to continuous, patient-centred, culturally safe care, but it would be naïve to assume all GPs shared these values, demonstrated mastery of the necessary skills, or worked in environments where these values could be readily enacted.
I had intentionally selected social work among the therapeutic professions because of its explicit attention to the social surround.
Being a member of a professional body will be seen as an explicit endorsement of professional values, and professions will have greater self-interest in removing those members who fail to adhere to the standards defined by their profession.
By making explicit the values that health care professions represent, professional codes of ethics can reassure the public that the trust invested in the professions is justified and legitimate, as is properly noted in the following excerpt from the College of Nurses of Ontario Practice Standard on Ethics: "Nurses have a commitment to the nursing profession.
Though the researcher is a physician by profession, this was not made explicit to the respondents during the interviews, in order to avoid reporting bias.
