Three die as marauding Pakistan lawyers rampage through cardiac hospital

Three heart patients died after a mob of lawyers rampaged through a Lahore hospital in a dispute with doctors.

Up to 200 lawyers wearing traditional black suits stormed the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), smashing windows, doors and equipment and setting a police van ablaze.

That really seems like the sort of thing I’d expect less out of reality and more out of… what? A Mel Brooks movie? Zucker Brothers?

Lahore government official Kamran Ali told Reuters the lawyers were enraged by an earlier incident where doctors allegedly beat a lawyer at the hospital over his refusal to get in a queue of patients.

Huh. At no point here do the lawyers come off well.

Especially given that patients died, one hopes that these lawyers not only get disbarred but also perma-banned from getting any professional medical care in the future.