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While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

I have had a career in public service.

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

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

I want to be a professional.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.