Family physician with interest in clinical research, scientific support and teaching.

When I'm among engineers and statisticians I struggle following them while talking on R code, matrices or logarithms (they love them...). When I'm among my fellow physicians they think I'm a statistics and methods expert and a graphs magician (this not true!)

Appart from Medicine, that I love, I supose my expertise area in science is this grey area between the clinician and the "highly scientific" worlds. They usually don't understand themselves...

It's hard for a clinician to explain a statistician what medical practice really does and measures (not an easy field of knowledge as well!), and it's sad noticing how such high level clinicians some times end up performing such low level research. Clinical researchers, usually without protected time to conduct their research, sometimes don't have access to methodologists or they sank in science related arenas hostile for newcomers -permission asking, bibliography handling, journals or universities traditions...-

It is also easy for the methodolgist to get hypnotized by "highly reputed" science and end up leading sophisticated research that discover sophisticated banalities (sometimes things my grandmother already knew, although she barely could write)

I cannot write complex code, but I can notice when clinical research is sound or not, and I think I can make things quite clear to clinical researchers.