But while such professional preoccupation with privilege can make for interesting sociological fodder, the real issue, warns the author of a courageous essay published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine, is that such an overly developed sense of hierarchy comes at an unacceptable price: good patient care.
Scriptwriter Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for his biopic of Harvey Milk, tries to humanise Hoover's unquenchable professional preoccupation by summoning up his reputed double life as a closet case and cross-dresser; the gaudy after-death rumour that was so joyously taken up by the liberal Left, for whom Hoover was such a bête noire.
Although my chief professional preoccupation was politics, the biggest thrill I've ever had in my work was meeting and interviewing Ray Davies, the lead singer of The Kinks and the man who wrote one of the great postwar pop songs Waterloo Sunset, a piece of art that will live on well beyond any policy created by any of the politicians I've met.
In keeping with its subject's professional and personal preoccupations, it will be "an indictment of my country, of time, of our forgetful, self-centered humanity".
Alex de Betak's holiday home in Majorca is an extraordinary expression of a father's ability to integrate his professional and aesthetic preoccupations into a child-centric family pad.
But the school curriculums simply reflect, from a few light-years' distance, the impersonalist preoccupations of professional historians, among whom various forms of trendology reigned for much of the last 100 years.
Samba speaks of Anzhi with the professional footballer's focused preoccupations, not judging the socio-economics of a billionaire owner, Suleiman Kerimov, funding millionaire wages for top players to entertain the people of Dagestan, a province blighted by poverty and, in October, floods which killed seven people.
(Johnson Andy Kaufmanan's 99cent Tour' (through Feb. 24) Organized in conjunction with an exhibition at Maccarone, this series of evening screenings and discussions will present home movies and various Kaufman concerts and shows in their entirety; delve into his record collection; and examine his preoccupation with professional wrestling.
They faced many problems and hazards, not least the constant preoccupations with the professional and artistic ethics of reconstructing battle sequences.
Our interviews with physicians revealed that developing a sense of security is one of the predominant facets and preoccupations shaping their professional experience and practice.
