It's difficult to hold professional standards without a professional association backing you up. Doctors and lawyers would capitulate to client requests if they

It's difficult to hold professional standards without a professional association backing you up. Doctors and lawyers would capitulate to client requests if they didn't have the backing of the professional associations, and in many times law. If you attempt to force your lawyer to violate ethics, and their document it and complain then no lawyer will work for you. If you attempt to force a doctor to violate ethics, then not only will no doctor work for you, but you might actually get jail time.