Hi again,
Although the model I posted previously appears 'scientific' Peter, it is not evidence based. The website is geared towards trying to promote interest in some collaboration / research.

In terms of the boxes to highlight points already raised, health professionals spend several years getting to know their 'box'. The SCIENCES anatomy, biochemistry, physiology... Now the doctors spend more time on communication skills, because if they treat people as a diagnosis, as a physical 'machine', then the quality of care as perceived by the patient and an independent observer will be of likely poor quality.

Some nurses (to stereotype) are models of efficiency, but most though are prepared to 'travel', i.e. to put themselves in the patients (carers) shoes and see the world through their eyes. Taking IT in health as an example, you can manage a project with PRINCE or other methodology, but if you don't look beyond the processes (trends) and how people are responding things may become very 'difficult'. Maybe that's why there's so much emphasis on words and disciplines like - integrated, transdisciplinary, socioeconomics, interdisciplinary, psychosocial, geopolitical, neuromarketing....

neuromarketing - e.g.

INTERPERSONAL box: behaviour, experiments, freewill, ethics, personal choice, memetics
POLITICAL box: consent, security, legislation, costs, public health, governance-control, measures
SCIENCES box: brain imaging, bioinformatics, research programmes
SOCIAL box: media, languages, social nets, cultural acceptance, public perception

Using the model and 'travelling' you don't have to think of it as being in or out of boxes. Take Hodges model on A4 paper:

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk

- and mentally fold it.

Suddenly disparate ideas, issues, techniques are thrown together. As the physicists show (in theory only alas) your previous journeys (new experiences - role plays, placements, secondments...) mean you don't have to travel the full distance*: you can warp space. In addition I'm better equipped to take the patient / carer with me and (try) to get their engagement. It's true that many of these combined horizons may not work, but that's the nature of creativity and risk for you...

*People do need timeout, refresh training, change of role/team periodically