Because all Medical Doctors are Physicians, does not mean that all practitioners of the ancient art of physicians are discredited, per se, because so many Doctors today seem more interested in the financial rewards than in their oaths; nor, even worse, because so many Doctors today are so afraid of the bad apples in the legal profession--of which I acknowledge there are some outrageous examples, whom I would no more wish to embrace than a Leper--that they over-treat many patients, with very serious financial consequences, as well as human tragedy.
The lawyer bit is a digression from the real issue. While lawyers jokes have been amusing since ancient times, they are not the real issue.
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It was never easy to tell for sure.