<p>I know I am wording this “inmaturely” but I would really like to stick up for doctors…is my best bet to go into Health Law…and how much better would Georgetown be than Pitt</p>
<p>“Health” law is a term that is so broad that it can include a lot of different types of lawyers; examples:</p>
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<li><p>You say you really want to stick up for doctors. Those at the front line in doing that are litigators who specialize in medical malpractice defense. And the vast majority of those never took any course that had anything to do with doctors or medicine in college or law school – they became litigators first and through on the job training eventually turned to specializing in medical malpractice defense. There are a number of MD’s who then go to law school and become medical malpractice lawyers.</p></li>
<li><p>Georgetown does not have any particular specialty called health law, What it has is a combined JD and Master of Public Health 4 year program where students spend a year at Hopkins getting those MPH courses. But that deals a lot with public health and regulation which is itself a large variety of things including corporate and tax matters for hospitals, health regulations applicable to all kinds of businesses (for example, health regulations applicable to restaurants, hospitals, food manufacturers, etc.), medicare and medicaid, and many other things that do not directly deal with doctors.</p></li>
<li><p>Lawyers who specialize in corporate, tax, retirement and estate matters have practices that are geared towards doctors.</p></li>
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<p>Bottom line: you should not approach law school with the idea you are going to be taking a bunch of courses that relate to doctors or medicine. Most lawyers who do things that relate to doctors gain any such specialty after law school.</p>