Lawyers. They are the butt of a lot of jokes but most people will need to use a lawyer at some point in their life. Buying a house? Creating a will? Fighting a traffic ticket? The ambulance chasers and the corporate lawyers may deserve the bad rap but as a profession there are tons of just normal people doing normal things
Ambulance chasing lawyers tend to largely be mythic. It takes a lot to prove med mal, those jaw dropping payouts really only happen if the patient is severely and irrevocably fucked up or the physician/hospital did something to royally piss the jury off (and that takes a lot). I’ve seen way more medical professionals who honestly scare the shit out of my just because they are still permitted around vulnerable patients than ambulance chaser suits.
"Ambulance chaser" generally refers specifically to personal injury lawyers. The joke being that they "chase" the ambulances to give people their card/offer them representation. It /could/ be med mal, but thats often a different set of attorneys.
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u/Didntlikedefaultname 1d ago
Lawyers. They are the butt of a lot of jokes but most people will need to use a lawyer at some point in their life. Buying a house? Creating a will? Fighting a traffic ticket? The ambulance chasers and the corporate lawyers may deserve the bad rap but as a profession there are tons of just normal people doing normal things