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There's two sides to that. Police accidentally ruin lives most days and generally have a degree of immunity for example. Arguably the needle has moved too far with doctors - they treat every medical note as a legal document, almost a mini contract carefully written and cautiously hedged. Imagine writing all your code and notion documentation very cautiously and legally carefully so as to leave no impression that you may have had fault, being ambiguous here and there and non-committal to not nothing. Unironically that is how it works fully in medicine in the present, and I feel that detracts from an ideal world where a doctor may express what they think straight up, clearly. If anyone is meant to read their notes it ought to be the patient, not the lawyer.

It doesn't serve much to point to platitudes and extremes one way or the other, let's look at the average case, the average case is the average doctor writes every note with fear and caution with regards to legalities and missteps.

One of the most notorious examples is radiologist hedging, here's an example: https://ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.19.21428 So why are doctors studying law here exactly?