Ambulance chase

While asking google about something else yesterday evening, I came across an interesting case from Oregon.

It seems that a few years ago there was a chap who was qualified as both an ambulance chasing attorney and as an emergency room doctor, whatever this last might mean in the US. Free to set up his stall in emergency rooms in the state of Oregon? His attorney flavoured professional body wanted to name and shame him (what they call a public reprimand) on the grounds that he was using his medical activities to promote his legal activities, or to put it more crudely, to point him in the direction of promising looking ambulances to chase. As it turned out, the professional body was blocked from so doing by the local supreme court.

Perhaps the chap was not guilty as charged, but it would be a lot simpler if people did not did not do this sort of thing. A lot clearer that nothing unsavoury was going on. Quite apart from the issue of whether you would want to buy professional services from someone who divided their time between two demanding professions in this way.

Prompted to post by a surveyor pushing leaflets through all the doors in our road about the excellent services they offer in cases of dispute about building works in one plot damaging buildings in another.