Firstly, a smugness that the value of professions is self-evident and can therefore be taken for granted.
The BMA is preparing to launch a campaign to "promote the value of the profession, a value that is not always reflected accurately by government or the media".
It's just not as simple as most people think it is, and it's important to educate the public to maintain the value of the profession".
It inspired me and renewed my faith in the decency and value of a profession that often seems drenched in bloody voyeurism and world-weary posturing.
When Vince lashes back and challenges Johnny about the moral value of his profession, Johnny stumblingly musters an argument about filmmakers doing good by showing what's wrong with the world.
Some lawyers say the proposals amount to an attack on a cherished value of the profession, which is that people in trouble should be able to trust their lawyers.
These tensions around teaching inscribe in higher education wider debates about the value of the professions, the nature of expert practice, and how to recover and ensure professionals' capacity for care.
No -- we sought and still seek alternatives to dehumanizing, production-centered, technology-oriented, natural process-denying, bulling disregard for the value of other professions and practices that an alternative "holistic" or "whole person" or "natural" or "mind-body" approach to what ailed us.
In the absence of regulatory support, it is possible that strong professional branding may provide a competitive edge by reinforcing the perceived value of the professions in the eyes of the public and policy-makers.
An interview schedule [ 27] assessed students' perceptions of anatomy-related and medical-school related stress and whether completing projects a) taught students something of value about the profession of medicine and/or b) reduced student stress.
While increasingly patient orientation is called for as one aspect of quality care, this demand conflicts with existing structures, goals, and a number of basic values, behaviour of professions and organizational procedures of institutions [ 25].
