Interprofessional Collaboration Revisited

Do people who have no professional titles – many patients may fall in this group – feel sidelined by the enthusiasm for ‘inter-professional collaboration’? What happens if you’re not a ‘professional’? Or what happens if you are a ‘professional’, or were trained as one once, but you’re now ‘just a patient’, or a caregiver, or a retiree, or you’re at home with the children, or you’re unemployed?