Why do a lot of doctors dislike lawyers as patients?

Question

Why do a lot of doctors dislike having a lawyer as a patient?

Answer 1

Lawyers tend to argue with doctors since they tend to to think that they are smarter than the doctors. And doctors need to be extra careful with what they say to them since one mistake can make they lawyers sue them.

Answer 2

because we as doctors do the best we can and if we mess up, the lawyers will sue us so we have to be EXTRA careful with them and not to tick them off.

Answer 3

Actually, it's just some lawyers we dislike, especially personal injury lawyers. They tend to turn every adverse event, however trivial, into a tort case. Or at least, that is our perception.

It sometimes works the other way. Our group's lawyer dismissed us as a client over an apparent misunderstanding. The truth is, we liked him and thought he did excellent work for us.