Well used car salesmen and politicians (see below)
Don can you serve up a bigger softball.

Seriously the reason doctors are more doubted by their patients is directly married to fear of a medical malpractice case. All the testing now performed is in direct response to the avoidance of a lawsuit.
I think you missed this one!

When asked about lawyers in the aggregate, the public views them lessfavorably. Lawyers' ethical standards and practices are thought to be middling by most people, with a much larger contingent regarding them as poor (21%) than as excellent (3%).20 Those who thought

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lawyers less honest than most people rose from 17% in 1986, to 31% in 1993.21 The ABA poll reports that " [h]alf the public thinks that about one-third or more of lawyers are dishonest, including one in four Americans who believe that a majority of lawyers are dishonest."22 Over the past decades, general estimations of lawyers have fallen.23 In the 1993 NLJ survey, 36% of the respondents said their image of lawyers had "gotten worse" and only 8% said it had "improved."24
When, in 1991, a national sample was asked to volunteer "what profession or type of worker do you trust the least," lawyers were far and away the most frequent response. Almost as many (23%) spontaneously volunteered lawyers as the next two categories (car salesman, 13%; politicians, 11%) combined.25