When I moved from medicine into research, the biggest shock to me was failure. I had spent years going home fairly satisfied at the end of the day — a clinic had been completed, treatments prescribed, patients reviewed. Now, I could do weeks of work and yet see no tangible success. I moved into research thinking that this was where the real progress would be made — where I could make a difference [1]. But at times, looking at the most-recent in a long and time-consuming line of failed experiments, I wasn’t so sure.
To read the rest of this blog, and to see what action can be taken… visit the Nature Careers Blog – https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00107-y [2]