<p>okay i'm really unsure about it but i think i may want a law degree. I don't wanna end up doing some stupid crap or being poor. How do lawyers work within our health care system. Can someone fight pharmaceutical companies or help out insurance companies with malpractice and still have a conscious? I really hate the idea of getting into government though</p>
<p>Are you saying you just want to deal with medical or insurance law? Read this: [url=<a href=“http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm]Lawyers[/url”>http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm]Lawyers[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I doubt you would survive in law school. Law schools require students to write in complete sentences and use proper punctuation. Most law students know that “alright” is not a word.</p>
<p>“Alright” has been used since the late 19th century. “All right” is preferred but that doesn’t make “alright” </p>
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<p>in your words.</p>
<p>And I see no incomplete sentence in the OP.</p>
<p>All you have to do is remember the constitution and you can win any case. Law school sounds like its basically reading a dictionary for 4 years. I like the idea of having to write a lot. Opening holes in our legal system is not only fun but profitable. - this such be the motto of every law school</p>
<p>If you honestly think that all law school is, is memorizing the Constitution, then you shouldn’t go to law school until you actually look into what it is. Because that’s not what it is.</p>
<p>…and it’s generally three years.</p>
<p>yea i know it isn’t but when your arguing in court that’s what you have to play off of. I understand few if any cases even make it court. I imagine law school as a huge library and sorting the cases out into your specialty is mostly what it is. If you remember the constitution and the basics you can formulate them into pretty much anything if your smart enough.</p>
<p>i just want to know if i can have a conscious doing that when I’m working within our terrible health care system. I can only see myself working for the insurance companies and I know that won’t help me sleep at night.</p>
<p>um, I think that you need to do a little more research into law school, legal writing, etc. before you decide if law’s the right career for you. </p>
<p>also, since none of us know what your morals are, we don’t know where you could work that will enable you to “sleep at night.” There are lots of jobs in the field of health law–you could represent patients suing doctors, doctors being sued by patients, insurers of doctors or patients, hospitals, etc. Or you could work for a state or federal department of health, a legislative committee dealing with health and human services, a think tank that does health policy, and probably a number of other places I’m forgetting.</p>
<p>You could also work in healthcare compliance (which is a booming and growing field, particularly as the regulatory landscape becomes more complex and enforcement is stepped up) and/or healthcare transactional work (acquisitions, joint ventures, joint development of IP, etc. in the healthcare field).</p>
<p>chubbsubb - from your posts it is clear that you have absolutely no idea what law school or or the practice of law is like. law school is not a huge library where you sort cases. the constitution plays a role in a very very small percent of cases in actual practice.</p>
<p>you say you can only imagine yourself working for an insurance company, but you don’t know if that will allow you to “sleep at night.” what exactly are your career goals – other than not doing “stupid crap or being poor”? why are you drawn to the health care field when you seem to have so much contempt for the field? </p>
<p>being a lawyer is stressful. it is a lawyer’s job to diligently represent the interests of its clients whether they personally agree with the client or not. lawyers do not always have the luxury of only working for clients with whom they completely agree – especially new lawyers.</p>
<p>well i know i don’t know the first thing about it. All i really know is that is is only offered in graduate school. I think id rather be a doctor anyway. I wanna help people and being a lawyer seems like it could help a broader scope of people, i really don’t want to get into politics.</p>
<p>I really don’t know what to say. You need to do some research and talk to people about occupations. You don’t see people saying, “You know what… I want to be a ____” and then suddenly they are. Seriously, you need to do more research into the field, and thinking to yourself.</p>
<p>i don’t get eaten alive by anyone.</p>
<p>Just curious, how old are you? I’m guessing you’re in high school and have very little idea what you want to study, but you have years to decide then. You say you want to help people, but there are so many fields for that - medicine, law, social work, politics, engineering, science, teaching, etc. </p>
<p>Law school is 3 years and it’s not anything like memorizing the constitution or laws - that’s like saying Med school involves cutting open a cadaver, poking around, and memorizing where everything is. 
If you have strong reasoning, analytical, and logical skills, as well as strong reading comprehension and writing skills, you would probably be a good fit for law, although those skills are needed in other professions as well. If you’re interested in Healthcare, there’s also other options, like studying Public Policy, Healthcare Administration, etc…lots of options.</p>