'Anger and frustration' occurred both in consultations and afterwards and was attributed to: their interactions with the medical profession; feeling helpless; their frustration of being unable to access care; not knowing where to turn to for support and practical advice and abandonment by the medical profession.
Both professions reported feeling competent with regard to both diagnosis and therapy: on a six point Likert-type scale, the mean score for diagnostic competence was 4.31, and 4.38 for therapeutic competence for GPs (medians 5), and 4.95 for diagnostic competence and 5.03 for therapeutic competence for specialists (medians 6).
But last night brought a welcome reprieve for those members of the profession feeling universally unloved, as 300 representatives from the world's biggest banks gathered together to celebrate each others' achievements at the Bank of the Year Awards 2008.
Researchers also perceived that some chaplains experienced research as a threat to their profession, e.g., feeling they were being judged.
In these circumstances the profession feels that it must display the strength of feeling across the country by staging this further protest action".
Let's face it: the legal profession is not feeling the love these days.
Then I thought how ridiculous it is that I'm ashamed of my job title and how nice it would be if I could just call myself a mixologist -- unofficial as it may be but still the official word in the English language for my profession -- without feeling embarrassed or judged.
Other work-related variables dealt with reported dissatisfaction with certain job aspects (timetable, time constraints, salary, resources, training), experienced difficulties with others (pupils, colleagues, parents, administration), as well as reasons for choosing the teaching profession (job security, feeling a calling for teaching).
He can't help feeling the profession is changing, and probably for the worst.
Like most people in this profession I have been feeling both angry and sad ever since, sad that he died so young, and angry that he reached the point where he felt that the best choice in he could make in the circumstance was to jump.
