Even if they later change their beliefs or do not fully practise their religion, for many, severing ties with their faith would involve severing ties with their whole community and on many occasions even their immediate family.
The full list of "acceptable professionals", who must be fully qualified and practising, is: accountants, actuaries, architects, barristers, chartered surveyors, commercial pilots, dentists, medical doctors, optometrists, pharmacists, certain financial advisers, solicitors, teachers and vets.
Only a quarter were fully satisfied with practising medicine, a disturbing statistic for patients.
A huge number of people quite lazily identify with a belief system they happen to have been born into without even fully understanding or practising it.
Sixty seven doctors and 30 nurses took part, all of whom were fully trained to practise endoscopy independently (table 1).
The controls were doctors who had graduated from the same university in the same year and were fully registered, currently practising, and had never been under investigation.
Involvement of clinicians from prioritisation of research questions through to conduct and dissemination of trial findings is crucial, and there is evidence of a high level of engagement both from fully trained practising surgeons and from trainees.
The only consolation is that homeopathy can only be practised on animals by a fully trained vet or under the supervision of one, because it is forbidden for the average high street homeopath to treat animals on their own.
The intervention will be carried out by rehabilitation workers fully trained in the methodology (social workers, MH nurses, occupational and vocational therapists) who have practised with at least four patients under the supervision of a certified expert in BPR.
If practised assiduously – "all day and every day", as Confucius enjoined – we begin to appreciate our profound interdependence and become fully humane.
