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Let me sum it up for you:
Waste. Of. Time.
Decide now if you really want to be a laboratory researcher. If you do then go get a PhD and forget the MD.
If not then just go to medical school. You can still do plenty of clinical research with your MD, while you continue to see patients and earn a living. Trust me, because that's the situation I'm in now.
You really, really don't want to add on more years of training than you have to. It turns out life really IS better when you have a paying job and don't work like a dog like you will in residency/fellowship etc. You're already going to be watching your Computer Sci/Engineering etc. friends going out and earning a great living while you slave away at school on meager loans, without financial security. Don't add more years of servitude to the already long uphill road you're facing
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