A study was undertaken of the attitudes of professionals and students in two “gatekeeper” professions (medicine and law). Results indicated, as predicted, that lawyers (n = 52) and physicians (n = 58) were significantly more oriented to the medical model than were the students in those same professions (ns = 37 and 21, respectively). The implications of such divergent attitudes are briefly discussed.
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