This chapter focuses on professionalism in psychiatry that is important to recall that unprofessional conduct by psychiatrists taints and undermines the trust that our patients have in us as individual psychiatrists as well as in the discipline of psychiatry and medicine in general. The Australian approach to professionalism is based on international standards of professional conduct in medicine and psychiatry. However, Australian psychiatry has been influenced by instances of unacceptable care, in which patients received care was neither medically competent nor professional. Australians seeking healthcare currently do so through public or private healthcare systems, and the universal public healthcare system is known as Medicare. Australians have historically demonstrated some indifference towards those institutionalized with mental illness, and in this context there have been a number of instances of institutional exploitation of mentally ill patients.