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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

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

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

I was going to college to be a 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 medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.