In this group, care was predominantly undertaken by midwives with support from obstetric doctors, specialities and allied healthcare workers only as required.
The professional groups most involved in SSAs are social workers (within which there are further specialities such as mental health) and the health professions (especially community nurses).
In a Dutch study from 1996 it was found that the attitudes towards working part-time within a speciality were related to the number of part-time workers and that female specialists had a more positive attitude than their male counterparts [ 2].
In developed countries, excluding America, doctors with no speciality earn about twice the income of the average worker, according to McKinsey, a consultancy.
If you see a queue of workers outside a cafe serving whatever its lunchtime speciality is, you can be pretty sure it's worth joining.
The decision drew protests from customers and employees alike, with Parisians, deprived of specialities like ready-made chicken tikka masala, opening a condolence book and a dozen workers occupying the city's flagship store.
The Rhineland, however, became one of the great glassmaking areas of the Roman world (partly, it is thought, because of successive migrations of Near Eastern workers) and, although Rhenish glass is always recognizably Roman, several types of decorated glass were specialities of the district.
Cocktails are the speciality.
That is their speciality.
The speciality? Absinthe.
