OK you are a doctor or nurse, but what do you play at work?

So if healthcare teams were to play a sport which game would fit in with their team dynamics? If you think it would fit into any team sport, think again. Bolman and Deal present an insightful way of looking at team structure and dynamics in my old favorite book ' Reframing organizations'.They talk about 3 different team structures represented by 3 different games -football, baseball and basketball. Football involves various platoons executing sequential patterns of action - defence, midfield that sets up an attack and the daring attackers. The defence rarely takes an attacking role and vice versa. Basketball on the other hand involves multiple roles for all members with rapid switching of roles and well coordinated actions. Baseball is a game of lone players doing individually what they have to do with little dependance on the others. This is not to say they don't have team goals and objectives but they are relatively independent. So what kind of team play are you involved in? Its not a case of which one is better as long as it fits in what your team is trying to do. R and D teams probably work well in baseball format and it would probably be an ineffective R and D team if it does its research works in basketball format. An IVF care team could be fine in a football approach.
However the key point is to fit team structure to purpose and even for a team purpose can change.