Can medical doctors (M.D) do research?
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Of course, lots of M.D.s and D.M.D.s and D.D.S.s do research without the PhD, but you would want to spend some time and effort studying your specialty. That time could be put to good use by acquiring additional degrees in virology. Some institutions have a combined M.D./ PhD. program.Contact several universities to find them.
593128
In the US it's a PhD, MD or JD.
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no where at all.\n\nNone, no proven studies of any merit whatsoever.\n\nBasically politics.  Us doctors are far too important to be told if we are proficient or not... is the basic stand still.\n\nAll studies are biased, at best, and frank deception at worst.\n\nReally a joke, our dept does a ton of this type of "research" and it is without merit.
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You might want to ask a medical professional that question.
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I would do a literature search on pubmed.gov for the disease name - then I would look at the author of the majority of the papers on that disease, or some recent good ones - then I would email that doctor (name is on the paper along with email address) and I would ask them who in my part of the country he would recommend.  That is what I would do.
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They are M.D.'s with advanced training in radiology.Do you think that they just take and read xrays or something? If you do then you don't understand all the things that radiologists do.
1106756
My mother is a dentist, and they have the same status as other doctors. A dentist performs surgeries, procedures, and must earn a doctorate to practice, just as other doctors.
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It depends on how far you go. Medicine, to me, is a rather cut and dry field. Due to liability, not to mention emotional risk and the hippocratic oath, there is not as much room for creativity (or requirment either) as there is for say a research physicist.  \n\nPhysics requires more math.  Medical school requires more working when maybe you don't want to. (Physics grad students work awfully hard, but at least they can pretty much set their own schedules! A resident or intern cannot.)\n\nDifferent kinds of hard.  That said, I bet most physics PhD holders could earn an MD and a medical license, but I bet a significant fraction (half, give or take a quarter) of practicing doctors do not have the creativity and raw brain power/analytical skills to earn a PhD in Physics.
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A medical doctor is someone who has studied and completed medical school, and therefore is permitted to use the initials M.D. after their name.\nAfter medical school, someone has to do practical study in their chosen field of medicine, called an internship or residency.  After they complete this, and pass another exam, they may go into medical practice.
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There is a huge difference between a medical doctor and a PhD holder. A medical doctor is a student of medicine and has specialized in a particular field of medicine only. He studies further to become a practicing doctor or physician or even a surgeon. \nBut a PhD is a doctorate in any of the educational fields - Literature, Science, Arts, Commerce etc., and not necessarily medicine. It is the further deep-rooted study after a Masters degree.
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That's a very very good question in light of the fact that they have\nlittle if any real value to a persons health. AMA doctors today are\nonly expert at their financial portfolios all other requirements they\nmust complete are cover by what they call standards of care,which are dictated prescriptions of their real masters the\ndrug dealers.
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Not that I know of.  There are plenty of sites (such as webmd.com) to find general medical information, but most doctors wouldn't put your records on the Web.  For one thing, there's no reward for them to put in that effort. For another (at least in the US) there are laws about privacy that would probably scare the docs out of doing any such thing.
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Several types of scientists make and design medicine.  First there are people who study pharmacognosy. They are looking for medications in plants.  Then there are medicinal chemists.  They take information about where they think the drug will work and design a molecule to work at that location.  They can also tinker with the molecule to make it work better or without as much toxicity.  It doesn't stop there becasue then you need someone who is trained in pharmaceutics.  Even if the medicinal chemist comes up with a great drug, the chemical structure may not allow it to be delivered to the body, like if the stomach or intestines couldn't absorb it.  A pharmacologist takes the drugs studied by the med chemist and pharmaceutics guy and studies how and where the drug ACTUALLY works, not just how it should work based on its structure.  They may do studies with rats or other animals to try to figure this out.  All of these folks are usually people who have gotten Ph.D. degrees and therefore are good at doing research.\n\nPharmacists in the other hand, get a doctor of pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.) and spend little to no time actually doing research.  They learn a lot in school about how the drugs work and how they should be used.  They also learn about the diseases themselves.  If a pharmacist wants to do research, they have to get more training (a fellowship) or they have to get a Ph.D. too.  A pharmacist gets licensed by a state board of pharmacy so that they may purchase and dispense medications.  Neither a med chemist, pharmacologist, or pharmaceutics person is ALLOWED to do this function by law.
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almost every medical facility has some research going on. go to the nearest hospital and ask.
920633
A doctor would be the best person to ask.
50607
do you mean documents if so things like shot records and other phyiscal work ups you doctor has performed
33608
DOCTORS.......who else can know u better