Theodore Eliades
Editor
2013
Too often, the question is asked, “Are you a clinician or a researcher? Are you in the academic ivory tower or out in the everyday world, treating live patients?” This is an unfortunate “either-or” dichotomy that impugns the real status and integrity of our profession for the new millennium. For medicine, the hand and glove relationship of practice, individual research involvement and teaching is an essential fact—a “must for modern medicine.” Most physicians are involved in both, at one time or another in their career. The public respects the essentiality of this intimate relationship. And so do the medical colleagues. Not so in dentistry.