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...

 OD> Even if the only thing he knows how to do is abortions?

if i go to him for an abortion, then yes... i don't expect him to practise
on how to perform an abortion on me...

now, i want to point out that i am "attacking" the use of the
word "practise"... one may practise baseball, football, soccer,
or playing musical instruments but when the time comes, one isn't
practising when they are playing or performing... doctors and lawyers are
always practising >

)\/(ark