Reply #4: If you think that most people in government are idiots,

[liberalhistorian]

then you, my friend, are definitely on the wrong website. And as someone in the legal field who's married to an attorney who's worked his ass off all of his career on behalf of the low-income and desperate, when he could have made a lot more money doing the corporate shark thing, and having known many, many, many such attorneys, I say that you couldn't be more wrong.

And yes, the attorney was a complete idiot in this case and deserves to be sanctioned and sued up the wazoo for malpractice; I hope he has good malpractice insurance (yes, attorneys can be sued for malpractice just like doctors and have malpractice insurance, too) as there is no excuse for his inaction and gross negligence in this case. There are good and bad in ALL professions. But the legal profession generally does a much better job of policing itself and holding its members accountable than the medical profession, which is more interested in protecting themselves from any accountability for the consequences of their negligence, and in reducing said accountability to almost nothing, than in protecting patients.