Prof Benchie and Dr Athena—A modern tragedy…

in which Professor Benchie, an established super-subspeciality clinician who spends most of his time performing laboratory research, profers advice toAthena, an enthusiastic early career physician who, although she spent summers in the lab as a medical student, is just finishing a research fellowship that included a course in clinical research and wonders whether she would prefer to devote her research time to patient-based therapeutic trials.