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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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- Subject: Re: Medics as scientists ?
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- Date: 7 Sep 92 19:47:16 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.202346.10727@maths.tcd.ie> <1992Sep2.181049.9827@city.cs>
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- In article <1992Sep2.181049.9827@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug28.202346.10727@maths.tcd.ie> arora@maths.tcd.ie (Ashish Arora) writes:
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- >> 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.
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- >I have generally found that a scientifically oriented doctor is
- >a rare thing. A scientist has a broader view and is more likely
- >to be innovative whereas doctors generally perform from their
- >experience and their training.
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- Another way of putting this is that the great majority of doctors only
- use the established procedures that they are familiar with. The problem
- is what should one do when these procedures do not suffice? This is why
- I have called for a "non-specializing specialty" of master diagnostician.
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- I know that doctors call in specialists. But a specialist in a specialty
- not pertinent to the problem is of little use, at best.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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