Hasan "was not fit to be in the military, let alone in the mental health profession, " this classmate told CNN.
The public-health profession has been looking for a justification for its existence ever since the communicable diseases that it was established to fight were all but wiped out.
However, behavioural addiction is a health issue that needs to be taken seriously by all those in the health and medical profession.
"The cost of time survey is a good indicator of the general health of the profession on an annual basis and it's clear that the effects of the recession are not over, " she said.
That's something which we, the health service and the profession more generally have got to tackle.
Mr Gawande, who is a surgeon by profession as well as a contributor to the New Yorker, where he has written extensively about health care, thinks that his own profession is ripe for a checklist revolution.
"Creating a strong research foundation of what chaplains do in the clinical setting will mark the coming of age of health-care chaplaincy as a profession, " he says.
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The leaders of the health care industry and the medical profession, not to mention the political establishment, have a single, all-purpose response they fall back on whenever somebody suggests that the United States might usefully study foreign health care systems: "But it's socialized medicine!"
President Obama's proposed health care reform may also help the profession.
But there are still too many protected sectors, including newsagents, the legal profession, most public services, health insurance, pharmacies and international aviation, where significant barriers to entry remain.
Bankers are at higher risk for burnout and mental-health problems due to the volatility in their profession, says Alden Cass, a New York-based clinical psychologist who specializes in counseling Wall Street professionals.
He is now retired on health grounds, but intended to return to the profession.
The Department of Health has recently set up a commission to look into the future of the profession.
Like many in his profession, Mr Merck regards officials both in Brussels and Paris as health fanatics bent on destroying the tobacco business.
In fact, it is a common joke within the profession that you are better off saying you are an estate agent than health manager.
But the rest of the medical profession is more diverse, and doctors differ on what they want to see in a changed health care system.
But the organization has reflected deep divisions in the medical profession by joining conservatives in refusing to back Obama's call for a government-funded public health insurance option.
Beyond that, says Mr Caplan, distrust of the medical profession is currently running so high pushed by rising costs, the perceived greed of some health-care bosses and malpractice suits that not many state voters will readily give doctors the same responsibility they have in Oregon.
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