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I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.

I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.