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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (47994)	5/19/2002 4:52:26 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

While I was in law school we had several lectures in our Professional Responsibility course by a psychologist who specialized in working with lawyers. They were quite interesting. One of her main points was that lawyers are subject to higher levels of stress than any other profession, even doctors or pilots. She attributed this in part to adversarial nature of law -- that in every case, there are two lawyers combatting each other over the same problem. In surgery, all the doctors are seeking the same outcome for the patient, so that while the operation may be high risk and stressful, at least as you're going along there isn't another surgeon standing there pointing out all the potential errors to a judging surgeon or a jury. That may happen in recap, but not in the live event. If pilots are trying to land a plane with an emergency, they can count on the support of any other pilot who can offer support or advice. There is a collegial relationship with one's peers who are all supporting a positive outcome. But every time a lawyer appears in court, there is another lawyer there trying to undo all the good you are doing for your client. She went a lot more into this, much better than I have, even dealing with the difference between academic battles and courtroom battles, but that was the general gist of it. And she had numerous studies to show the higher rates of stress in lawyers than in any other profession. Of course, X isn't practicing as lawyer now, and as we all know, elementary school teaching is totally stress free, so your suggestion isn't real relevant.