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- From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
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- Subject: Re: Medics as scientists ?
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- Date: 28 Aug 92 21:08:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.202346.10727@maths.tcd.ie>
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- In article <1992Aug28.202346.10727@maths.tcd.ie> arora@maths.tcd.ie (Ashish Arora) writes:
- >
- > Do you find that good doctors (medical doctors) make good researchers,
- >or is it the case that good doctors and good researchers are mutually
- >exclusive groups?
- > Only comments please -- no flaming.
-
- Interesting question. I'm a doctor (ex, actually, decided life was more
- important than work...), and often heard it said that clinical practice was
- the death of many a good mind. The point is that medical training teaches a
- way of thinking that is rigid and 'flowcharted', with little or no room for
- innovation or originality. There certainly are doctors who have also been good
- researchers (e.g. from my alma mater, Prof. Sir Stanley Peart FRS,
- practising physician and dicoverer of this, that and the other...), but I
- think they're probably in a tiny minority.
-
- I'm hoping I got out soon enough... ;-)
-
- The Wisp.
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- Chris Williams <csuah@uk.ac.warwick.csv> aka <csuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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