Trial lawyers are more important than doctors
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Loading ...When I saw this article (h/t DrCris) I thought it was a joke, or at least a ‘teaser’ headline with a more reasonable qualification in the body text. I read on, slack-jawed at this arrogant, delusional, and megalomanical opinion piece passed off as serious reporting. I don’t know what grotesque acts the other CAOC Lifetime Achievment Awardees had to peform but this Gerry Spence has certainly got them beat:
“We are the most important people in America. There is no other profession in America that fights for freedom, that fights for what America is about, that fights for justice for ordinary people. I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers in America somehow disappeared? We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice.”
I laughed. I cried. I threw up a little bit in my mouth. Lawyers don’t dispense justice, lawyers represent clients and their interests. Period. If lawyers were involved in the dispensation of justice, killers caught red-handed would have no trial lawyer. Ken Lay, Enron’s CEO, wouldn’t have spent one day in court, and on and on. As a Lifetime Awardee of the legal profession, I’m sure Spence knew this at one time before he got caught up in a God complex about himself and his vocation.
As one commenter put it, “You’re stranded on a desert island. Who would you rather want with you, a doctor or a trial lawyer?” Another hypothetical: what percentage of people have never been in a courtroom as a litigant (ie, needing a trial lawyer) versus what percentage of people have never been in a doctor’s office? How this frilly-fringe-wearing blowhard wasn’t laughed off the stage makes me shudder in awe for the power of mob mentality at work in this “swanky” hotel ballroom.
Far be it from me to actually wish someone harm, but should Mr. Spence get hit by a bus outside a county courthouse, bleeding internally from blunt trauma and finding it difficult to breathe from a worsening hemo/pneumothorax, I wonder what he’d say when, as trial lawyers trip over themselves to hand him their business cards to sue the bus driver, the bus manufacturer, the tire company, and the city that improperly paved the street, his deoxygenating brain thinks, “Thank God I was hit in front of a courtroom instead of a hospital!”
Tags: egomaniacs, narcissism, trial lawyers
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November 26, 2008 3:06 pm
By Pk, November 27, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
“We can live without medical care,”
yes, people did live without today’s medicine and today’s breed of doctors …and the life expectancy was ….???
Today it’s 80 …
We can live without doctors … until pneumonia takes our children …and strep throat runs rampant leading to scarlet fever …and the mortality rates rise …
If we did away with the trial lawyers? We’d find a way. If we did away with doctors … if we didn’t die, many of our loved ones would.
“We can live without medical care,”
he ought to be ashamed
By Vijay, November 27, 2008 @ 9:44 pm
As I tweeted a few hours ago, “a virtuoso performance, maestro”
PS. I’ll indulge in some plain-speak not related to this post. Why the F aren’t you posting more? I am sure you could find enough of this kind of stupidity, then vent & rant with your unique brand of sarcasm-satire-humour.
PS2. You’ll hear from me if this comment doesn’t get published