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The shocking element of yesterday's crime is that Hasan was a psychiatrist (a profession whose training cultivates empathy) and is also connected to disaster medicine.
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This is bad for a profession whose mission, I was taught as a young reporter, is to bear witness to the world in a truthful way.
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Nor does the issue help the reputation of the accountancy profession, whose auditing before and during the global financial crisis has come into question.
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Yet this notion animates many in the Foreign Service whose almost caste-like view of their profession encourages their contempt for political masters with whom they disagree and, not infrequently, their rank insubordination.
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But the panel disagreed and it was judged Horsfall, whose practising certificate had already been revoked, had brought himself and the profession into disrepute.
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The profession has its roots in the welfare secretaries of the early 1900s, whose primary role was to ensure safety of the mill workers.
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For all that, it is strongly backed by schools of education, which have a monopoly of teacher-training, and by teachers' unions, whose members make more money when it is artificially hard for others to get into the profession.
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Mr Milburn - whose conference address will be his first high-profile speech to the members of the medical profession since the Budget - is also said to favour the money being spent on training new staff, replacing outdated equipment and replacing old technology.
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