'Lost Tribe' Of Clinician-scientists: Medical Doctors Who Do Research Could Be A Dying Breed
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 22:28
in Health & Medicine
The road from disease research to disease cure isn't usually a smooth one. One role which bridges the laboratory and the clinic is that of the "clinician-scientist" -- a doctor who understands disease both in the patient and in the Petri dish. Yet an editorial published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, contends that clinician-scientists in the UK and elsewhere are not prospering, but rather are "under threat in a hostile environment".
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