Personal Injury Law

Are Doctors Better Than Lawyers?

You really should read Colin Son's guest blog on KevinMD yesterday. Dr. Son uses two quotes to make a point I really don't know that he needed to make: doctors are more important than lawyers. The first quote is by a lawyer suggesting a lawyer is America's most important job. The second quote is by a journalist who suggests that being a reporter is harder than being a brain surgeon.

Dr. Son disagrees. Okay, fair enough. But Dr. Son feels compelled to take it a step further. Lawyers and journalists, he announces, are inferior professions to medical doctors.

We can all agree that President Obama's life to more important to society than, say, Brett Favre. It is an obvious fact. But if President Obama were to announce this tonight at a press conference, we would all conclude that he had lost his mind.

Similarly, I'm inclined to agree with Dr. Son that doctors are generally more important than lawyers. I might change my view if I was wrongfully accused of a crime. But if someone asked me if I could have the best doctor in the world or the best lawyer, I would take the best doctor in a heartbeat. But the fact that a doctor feels compelled to make this point is, at best, unnecessary and self-aggrandizing, and, at worst, creepy.

Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on October 13, 2010 (boomark / email).