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

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

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

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

I am a doctor, a real doctor.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.