Some of the most game-changing discoveries in medicine didn’t come from a lab — they came from clinicians who connected the dots in real time. Take hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: it wasn’t uncovered through years of controlled studies. It was a surgeon, mid-procedure, realizing the diagnosis was wrong and pivoting in the moment.
The future of medicine will be shaped by those who can do both. But the reality? Balancing clinical work and research is harder than ever. The pressure to choose one path over the other is real, and the environments that support both are rare.
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