Shooting gloves my friend is so far best solution that I have found other than a single trigger gun. Welcome to disenfranchised world of lefty shooting. Just about every Parker that I shoot that has double triggers in typical configuration works on that middle section of the finger. The edge of those triggers is about as sharp as a butter knife and like you my trigger finger brushes up against it when reaching over that left barrel trigger. The right barrel when fired and ensuing recoil rubs or bounces that trigger edge back and into finger. For me after a shooting a box of shells it looks like about a half dozen nicks in the skin. Not too big a deal if upland hunting since don't shoot that much but I generally use gloves when hunting anyway. After about the 35th round of fairly continuous shooting it really starts to get noticeable if not not shooting with gloves. I have worn through pair of Orvis shooting gloves right at same spot. I don't seem to have any problem with the trigger guard banging into middle finger though.
It doesn't impact tall lefty fellas so much with long skinny fingers. The only other solution if you don't like gloves is maybe one of those Lycra stripping sleeves that goes only over one finger. I have those for fly fishing when having to work a clouser or deceiver when stripping a lot of line. Having a fly line pulled over same spot a whole bunch can make a finger raw as well.
I used to wonder if it would be practical or even doable without much trouble switching right and left triggers but that maybe harder said then done since triggers are ever so slightly tilted for right handed shooters. It looks simple enough to do which means it probably isn't.
If and when ready to buy next Parker I am going to look hard at the single trigger skeet gun or one with a Miller trigger.
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