The multiplicity of roles of the occupational physician

The contemporary occupational physician serves many roles as he practices occupational medicine in the complexities of our industrial society. He is a physician, administrator, supervisor, interpreter, teacher, counselor, social worker, rehabilitationist, motivator, or advocate, as employee needs require. When performing well in these roles, he will serve best the employer, the worker, and himself, and, in the words of Rutherford T. Johnstone, will sense the poetry and romance of occupational medicine.