FS>>> This guy was merely a practitioner of medicine, not a researcher.

 OD>> Good for his patients. While this might be not so big on an
 OD>> all-humanity scale, you really don't want your practicing
 OD>> doctor to be a researcher.

 ml>> FWIW: i don't want my doctor to be *practising* at all... i want him
 ml>> to be doing what he knows to do...

 SA>      Then you won't necessarily be going to the best doctor.
 SA> Medicine is an ever changing field and doctors need to change
 SA> with it to be the best.

then they can go back to school to learn and practise... they're not going
to practise anything on me... this is what we make other occupations do,
isn't it?

)\/(ark