in some aspects of your work is being a scientist sometimes being like a doctor?

Question: in some aspects of your work is being a scientist sometimes being like a doctor?
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Asked by demixx to Ailsa, Evan, James, Kath, Ryan on 20 Jun 2011.
- Ryan Ladd answered on 18 Jun 2011:
  
  I guess so. Sometimes if a piece of equipment isn’t working I need to find out why and fix it, that’s almost like a doctor or a surgeon… but far less complicated I think!
- Ailsa Powell answered on 18 Jun 2011:
  
  I’m guessing you mean like a medical doctor (because those of us with PhDs are doctors too – but doctors in research not medicine). Like Ryan says we have to fugure why something isn’t work and try and fix it. But I never see people who are ill as part of my research, even though I work on diseases.
- Evan Keane answered on 20 Jun 2011:
  
  Well … I am a doctor. You can be a doctor of lots of things. I am a doctor of astrophysics. Do you mean like a doctor of medicine?

demixx commented on 21 Jun 2011:

i meant like finding cures for things like doctors do 🙂

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Ailsa commented on 22 Jun 2011:

Medical doctors use the medicines (cures) that the research doctors (like me) discover. Medical doctors do not discover these cures.

The only medical doctors that do find out new things are surgeons when they figure out new types of surgery. Medical doctors work out what cure (medicine) or treatment they should use based on a person symptoms.

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demixx commented on 24 Jun 2011:

ok thanks

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Question: in some aspects of your work is being a scientist sometimes being like a doctor?