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In one major aspect, medicine

rmrd0000 — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:00:54 +0000

In one major aspect, medicine is superior to law practice in that questions are constantly being asked. If clinicians feel new guidelines are full of crap they can say so. The discussions go on in journals and at national meetings. Studies are performed to assess if PSA and mammography are crap, for example. Most important discussions are not hidden from the public, they are put in print.

Yeah, well, I posted the

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:40:54 +0000

In reply to "To professionals who choose

Yeah, well, I posted the story with ambivalent feelings. It was sorta like this: is this a warning about what the rest of us would actually like to see happen or what we wouldn't like to see happen, or do we want something different to happen? I figured in the end it was worth it to read his analysis of the situation as it stands, whether one is at where he coming from or not. My own prejudices admitted: in general, when I see the term "big med," I tend to come at it this way: not a good thing.

"To professionals who choose

Lurker — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:57:16 +0000

In reply to The Collapse of Big Law: A Cautionary Tale for Big Med

"To professionals who choose careers in fields such as law, (...) it is demoralizing to be treated as a unit of production. Even some of the lawyers earning millions of dollars report that they find little or no fulfillment in the work they do."

Heartbreaking stuff, this.