This article attempts to show the interrelationship of biomedical professionals such as doctors and nurses compared to medical anthropologists and attempts to show their relevance in the healthcare system and their collaboration in interprofessionalism. Medical anthropology is a developing subdiscipline of anthropology. Medical anthropology is intended to provide a framework that should enable students to identify and analyze social, cultural, behavioral, and environmental factors as they relate to health and disease in a given society. Medical anthropologists are not doctors or medical professionals, but are usually found within the healthcare system as they play an in-depth role in involving cultural aspects in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the healthcare system. This is a perfect and unique example of interprofessionalism in the healthcare system. In all human societies, beliefs and practices related to illness are central features of cultural life. Although beliefs and practices strongly influence people's health, it is important to note that culture is not the only factor that influences health. Clinically applied anthropologists are closely involved in healthcare and patient care as members of the healthcare system. They work with doctors, consultants, laboratory technicians and many other paramedical staff. They deal exclusively with raising awareness of important cultural factors for health, some of them also practice medicine. This in itself is multidisciplinary interprofessionalism. Other medical anthropologists take a macro approach and focus on the political and economic equality that leads to poverty and ultimately has an effect on disease. An example of such an anthropologist...... middle of paper ......or concerns interprofessionalism in order to improve the healthcare sector in a given society. HEALTH SYSTEMS AS PART OF CULTURAL SYSTEMS Arthur Kleiman (1980), in The book “Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture” defines cultural systems as a coherent set of beliefs, norms, dispositions, institutions and patterns of interactions. Health systems are the patterns of beliefs about the causes of disease, norms that govern the choice and evaluation of treatment, institutions and contexts in which health care takes place, and power relations that govern interactions between patients and their healers . No medical system can be said to be waterproof. For example, the side-by-side existence of traditional spiritual healing traditions and Western cosmopolitan biomedical traditions has been reported in major world cities such as Amsterdam..