Doctors are not scientists

Well if we look at the general trend the notion that doctors are not
scientists seems to hold true. Most of the doctors will go about reading
articles with no idea of where to start and where to end. But at the same
time restriciting the definition of a scientist through the examples
quoted in the above piece of writing doesn't do justice. For me a
scientist is anyone who seeks. And thus any doctor who wants to practice
evidence based medicine has to read and then interpret the papers
published in his or her local journals. To me this makes him a scientist
as he questions and then finds answers. Whether or not reading papers
generates an interest in him to go on and do some research work himself is
dependent on many other factors. A doctor in a third world country, for
example, maybe restricted from doing this due to financial constraints.

Similarly another doctor may not have time to go on and engage in a
research work that requires both efforts and time.

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