The trick is to remain friends and neighbors in the professional role. Professionals can interact with other disciplines so as to learn their viewpoints, language and liability issues. New educational models for health care professionals emphasize group problem solving. The future may find more professional collaboration due to this education. The lack of collaborative patient care generates danger.
Physicians often work in tandem much as children in parallel play.
Nurses claim territory for their shifts and even mistrust others caring for the same difficult patient. These attitudes produce isolation for everyone involved. In isolation mistakes thrive. I noticed they rarely knew what the others were doing. I was the communication point.