Doing Both Clinical Work and Research Posted on October 17, 2007 Seeing patients takes time, but it's worth the effort, says Jordan F. Karp (bio).

One of the other issues that is both a challenge and something that I really enjoy has been doing both research and clinical work. This is something that I think that a lot of not just young researchers, but physicians and researchers across the age spectrum, I don’t know if struggle with is the right word, but encounter — I don’t want to give up doing clinical work and seeing patients. I think that it really — it informs the questions that I ask in my research. It’s gratifying to treat people and see them get well because research really moves at such a glacial pace. It’s really not immediately gratifying and it’s gratifying to treat somebody and then to have them get better within a month or so. It’s nice to get the financial compensation from seeing patients clinically as well. So there’s a lot of benefits and so it’s something that I try to — I don’t try it — I do both. My goal is to do 80 percent research and about 20 percent clinical work.

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