It always amazes me at how much people resent people who do their jobs. As a lawyer representing someone, they are supposed to do as much as possible to win their client's case. IF they make money off it so what? That's presumably why anyone takes a job..to make money. IF the last charge in the above has some truth, then I'd say the medical specialities need to be more careful.

Yes, I think litigation has made doctors and their insurance companies extra-leery, but I am sure there is a different way of hanlding things IF we were to get a decent socialised medical program in place. How about you in the UK and Canada? What happens in your country if a doctor does something terrible? Can you sue them? Does it happen often? Does the government make it right, so to speak? Do you haev lawyers earning large fees for lawsuits?

I'd rather have a lawyer who made a bundle, than a warmongering son of an oil whore.