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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What lawyers fail to understand--repeatedly--is that most people consider them leeches (or cockroaches--pick your metaphor).

I grant my trash collector more prestige than I do pretty much any lawyer. At least he's doing an honest job for a fair wage.[/quote]

What about when you get in a car accident or your ex is being difficult in a divorce case, or you have some other reason you need a lawyer.  Yes plenty of lawywers are leeches but we live in a society where even your own mother will screw you over.

Being a doctor is prestigious but our medical system is a mess.  One of the top debts people have are medical bills so some might consider doctors to be leeches also especially when you look at how some procedures and services are seriously being over charged.  [/quote]

The way I understand it doctors are not setting the rates for medical care, it's hospitals, insurance companies and the medical industry as a whole.  The reason that aspirin in the E.R. costs $100 is because it helps offset the cost for the next 100 patients with no insurance that walk into the E.R. and get free services, surgeries, care and medication.  That plus the large of amount of insurance they have to have to cover liabilities in this culture where legal cases are so prevalent.

This thread is ridiculous, lawyers if it strokes your ego a bit- thank you for your tenacity at always wanting to get in the last word, even if that means bumping an old thread to do so.
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I've seen my insurance pay a doctor over $300 for a five minute visit.  Some doctors are really overpaid for what they do.  Not to mention, I spent three years being misdiagnosed for something that ended up needing major surgery.  Just having an MD or a JD  is not enough for me to consider a person as having a prestigious career. It's what they are doing or have done with it. [/quote]

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