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Te blank calls for words that will describe professions such as nursing and occupational therapy as they relate to physicians. Tese professions are also in the health-care feld; the answer choices “kindred” and “afliated” both suggest this close relationship and produce completed sentences that are similar in meaning. Of the other choices, both “commensurate” and “proportionate” suggest some sort of comparative measurement between the professions mentioned, something unsupported by the rest of the sentence. Neither “imperative” nor “voluntary” would typically be used to describe “profession” nor does either have a word close in meaning among the other choices with which it could be paired. Thus the correct answer is kindred (Choice C) and afliated (Choice D).