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Originally Posted by All-American
No kidding. Is there a profession about which this statement would NOT be true?
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You think an invisible hand is choosing the number of lawyers and their reimbursement.
You think me calling you naive is insulting. So I'm not sure how to respond other than to say, you are wrong and naive.
I certainly don't believe that an invisible hand is doing the same for doctors.
Another thing, which is a qualitative statement of opinion, is that there are a lot of dumb people going to bad law schools (and good schools as well). Lawyers complain that there are too many lawyers.
A trap that exists for both doctors and lawyers is this: I went to an expensive, good school, I got good grades, so a higher paying job is available to me. I have to take it, because there are many other people that would kill (they are lawyers for chrissakes) to have this opportunity. Then they embark on a journey that is motivated by what they perceive as the preferred values of others, and not by an inner compass.
There was a kid in my ward that was Harvard Law grad. Corporate/big firm job. Freaking guy was trying to talk his wife into letting him go to med school. That doesn't strike me as someone happy with his job/career. He's changed jobs/firms, no doubt, hoping that the new place will do for him what his law career has failed to do, so far.