title: [Healthcare occupations are "different"].
abstract: Healthcare requires careful coordination of several occupations. In order to attain the best possible result, including effectiveness and cost-efficiency, the specific expertise of each of these occupations must be clearly defined. Healthcare occupations, physicians and nurses, are indeed professions as opposed to mere "jobs". They are concerned with living but ill human beings and not with things. Reliance on a personal capacity of judgment is a decisive aspect of professions. Healthcare professionals perform best if they are granted specific independence relative to their work.
authors.affiliation: Arbeitsgruppe Ökonomisierung, Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin, Im Stiftfeld 17, 35037, Marburg, Deutschland, heubelfr@staff.uni-marburg.de.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Heubel
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003363:Cost Control / Q000941:ethics; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005858:Germany; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000941:ethics*; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000941:ethics; D010819:Physician's Role; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000941:ethics