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"It would be easier for the powerful if there were no lawyers"

Lawyers contribute to solving legal problems, promoting ethical standards, and facilitating innovation in the field of healthcare (Image: E&J)

In his novel Colonel Chabert , Balzac narrates the tragic life of an officer of Napoleon who would have played a fundamental role in his military victories and who was heroically presumed dead at the Battle of Eylau (1807). The fictional reality is, however, that Chabert survived and, after numerous hardships, appears in 1817 in Paris, where he finds that everyone considers him gloriously deceased, and even his young wife, who has liquidated his large inheritance. and he has married again, refuses to recognize it and vilely accuses him of being an impostor.

The lawyer Derville agrees to defend the colonel against that heartless woman, who, with bad tricks, manages to frustrate the defense. Deeply Email Data disappointed, Maître Derville abandons the legal profession, retires to the countryside, and on the last page of the novel he confides to his intern the famous reflection, remembered among us a few years ago by Javier Marías in Los amores , according to which, of the three professions who achieve a greater knowledge of the human person, priests, doctors and lawyers, the latter are the most unfortunate because they never see repentance but rather the repetition of “the same bad feelings.” And he pronounces that painful conclusion: “our offices are sewers that are impossible to clean.”



The above is relevant because recently the veteran journalist José María Carrascal published a Tercera in the newspaper ABC , under the expressive title of Doctors and Lawyers , in which he recalled that a Spanish surgeon in the 1950s told him that The evils of Spanish politics were due to the fact that it was directed by lawyers and not by doctors . The thesis would only deserve the label of pilgrim if it were not for the fact that the doctor who supported it was based on manifestly erroneous premises, which he does not hesitate to explain. Here is a selection of these pearls: except for a few jurists (reduced to those who teach at the University) “the rest of the lawyers are dedicated to seeing how they can violate these rules without committing a crime” ; free legal assistance “acts as a brake on reaching a correct sentence”; “Before a law is approved there are already brains looking for ways to violate it, bend it or look for subterfuges.” In contrast to the above, the same witty interlocutor said: “those who know the Spanish reality are the doctors and not the lawyers, and they are the professionals who are least abundant in politics.”