2) Again: if a medical doctor refused to be evaluated by his peers and patients in an AMA study, would YOU recommend him?
My knowledge of the AMA would render any evaluation by that organization as something to be reviewed extremely critically. They really are an elite priesthood that looks down on anyone that might have a disagreement with their One True Way. A doctor refusing such an evaluation would be akin to a Catholic priest refusing a spiritual evaluation given by Scientologists.
I have less knowledge of how much the legal profession is akin to an elite priesthood, but health care isn't the only place that attitude exists. I have contacts that have confirmed that attitude is rampant among many biology and physics Ph.D.s.
Such priesthoods exist everywhere, in a wide spectrum of fields. Our current cultural-political system pretty much demands that people specialize themselves and become experts in one thing and refer to experts for everything else. Don't question the experts (in other fields); they know what's best. Be a good cog in the machine! The machine doesn't like cogs that ask the wrong questions.
You have a J.D. if I recall correctly, so I do expect you would know more about the landscape in the legal field.
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My knowledge of the AMA would render any evaluation by that organization as something to be reviewed extremely critically. They really are an elite priesthood that looks down on anyone that might have a disagreement with their One True Way. A doctor refusing such an evaluation would be akin to a Catholic priest refusing a spiritual evaluation given by Scientologists.
I have less knowledge of how much the legal profession is akin to an elite priesthood, but health care isn't the only place that attitude exists. I have contacts that have confirmed that attitude is rampant among many biology and physics Ph.D.s.
Such priesthoods exist everywhere, in a wide spectrum of fields. Our current cultural-political system pretty much demands that people specialize themselves and become experts in one thing and refer to experts for everything else. Don't question the experts (in other fields); they know what's best. Be a good cog in the machine! The machine doesn't like cogs that ask the wrong questions.
You have a J.D. if I recall correctly, so I do expect you would know more about the landscape in the legal field.