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Originally Posted by Muncle
Y'all can keep nitpickin' with each other if that's what rocks your boat, but face it, the other guy either cannot or will not see your point, much less concede it. As someone who doesn't really have a direct dog in the fight other than being a taxpayer and potential client/patient, I see the value of shysters as well as quacks. Somebody's going to get the wrong leg amputated or breast removed. That person is going to need someone to defend them against a medical/legal team that wants to award them 40% discounts on their next organ removal and call it even. And just because it's that MD's 10th botched amputation this year or the 14th good boob excised, the medicos would just as soon keep any "investigation" internal. They'll handle their own. Oh, give me a shark trial lawyer --- not John Edwards, but a real shark.
On the other hand -- low hanging fruit first -- you've all seen the commercials: "Had an auto accident, a fall, or any other injury. Call us immediately before you see a doctor. If we don't get you money, you don't pay!!!"  Without question, the bottom-feeders of the industry, but then someone had to finish at the bottom of the class. But another equally objectionable portion of an otherwise honorable profession is the class-action lawyer. We're gonna sue Chic-lets because they changed their formula for cinnamon and I'm allergic. Somehow, through friendly court rulings and other manipulations, we end up with 100,000 members of the class. We sue Chic-let for $500,000,000, a reasonable sum. Chic-lets knows the case is being tried in Madison Co, Illinois, so they're gonna lose. So they settle for $50mil. The lawyers get their percentage (in cash), then the class members get coupons good toward the purchase of new improved Chic-lets cinnamon, if, of course, they fill out all the right paperwork So who won?
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Not about nitpikin or getting anyone to concede. It IS about giving accurate information and real world experience to people that care to read and become informed, just making sure the other side of the coin gets equal time. The amount of misconception is so great that it is easier to just duck one's head and let it ride. I prefer not to do that. I think we all have a duty to share honest,
accurate and real information, and on a higher level an obligation to learn from those that share with us.
You do make good points on both ends of the spectrum, but oblique innaccuracies are still there. While there has been in the past a well known protection of physicians by physicians, give our legal bretren their due. They are actually quite well known (with a little research) for their self
protection in the "self policing" spectrum. The pendulum does indeed swing both ways, let's just be sure everyone is aware in the midst of all the rhetoric.