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		oblio on Dec 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell de... 3. Programming is one of those things you can do as a side-gig/hobby. I'm quite sure you can be a programmer and an MD, but you probably can't be both a theoretical physicist and a neurosurgeon :-p

eitland on Dec 23, 2020 [–]

I'm fairly certain there was at least one doctor who used to write Linux kernel code as a way to get rid of stress after work.

(3 minutes of searching got me Con Kolivas, and "ck" sounds familiar so that might be him.)

edit: now I see heavyset_go has commented about the same.

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