>> Doctors and lawyers are professions that are heavily "nationalized"

surely this is largely because it is rather hard to see the patient or
customer from the other side of the world. Both professions rather rely on
the prime supplier of the service being rather immediate to the required
service.

yes I know there are moves afoot to get remotely controlled instruments for
doing operations, but that is at the point where the local service provider
has made the initial examination, diagnosed, and gone for more specialised
knowledge. I am sure we will see more of this sort of farming out to
specialist personnel who are elsewhere outside your local country in the
future.

I would suspect that similar sort of things will also happen in the legal
world, probably not on such a world wide scale (witness the recent situation
where Cherie Blair was refused permission to appear as counsel in a
Malaysian court), but certainly to get advice. At the end of the day though,
legal counsel still need to appear "where you are in court", although for
(relatively) short distances and high security requirements defendants and
some witnesses are appearing by video link, but I don't figure this will
extend to prosecuting or defence counsel appearing in the court room in the
near future.

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