In a profession handed down from fathers to sons, Mr. Ruffins's reluctance might be as important as any other factor in explaining why the Fire Department remains resistant to change.
Like no other, the accounting profession has been handed an invaluable, but fragile, franchise.
This profession has been handed over from one generation to another.
Unless some specific (and usually contentious) theory of disease is employed to give this approach its teeth, it puts the power for drawing the boundary back into the profession's hands, and raises the same worries about the social consequences of medicalization (Parens 2013).
A controversy in Sweden illustrates how the world's so-called oldest profession fits hand in glove with the sharing economy.
Today the profession has gone too far in the other direction, with breezy bloggers handing down pronouncements unsupported by any original reporting at all.
Cesar Vargas, a leading voice in the immigrant rights movement, received the OK to practice his profession in a decision handed down Wednesday by a New York appeals court.
This is not the first time generations have handed off within our profession, and it will not be the last.
Then I recall being handed a one-page list of professions, with professions listed in one column and the average annual salary in the other.
All images were digitized and anonymized, and presented with the relevant clinical data (e.g., age of the patient, gender, dominant hand, profession and specific hobbies).
Wherever I could find work, I'd go there, find a couch to crash on and immerse myself in whatever profession was at hand.
