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Outside the medical profession, there are various efforts to cut medicine down to size: not only widespread malpractice litigation and massive governmental regulation, but also attempts by consumer groups and others to redefine medicine as a trade rather than as a profession, and the physician as merely a technician for hire under contract. Why should physicians (or indeed all sensible people) resist such efforts to give the practice of medicine a new meaning We can gain some illumination from etymology. "Trade," from Germanic and Anglo-Saxon roots meaning "a course or pathway," has come to mean derivatively a habitual occupation and has been related to certain skills and crafts. On. the other hand, while "profession" today also entails a habit of work, the word "profession" itself traces to an act of self-conscious and public—even confessional—speech. "TO profess preserves the meaning of its Latin source, to declare public
A. eager that the work of one group of professionals, physicians, be viewed from a new perspective
B. sympathetic toward professionals who have become demoralized by public opinion
C. surprised that professionals have been balked by governmental regulations and threats of litigation
D. dismayed that most professionals have come to be considered technicians