Actually, this is backwards. Physicians have been called doctors or doc way before PhD level education. Physicians being one of the first graduate or upper level education degree fields that is how doctorate was tied into the education process.
Ash, yes, I studied microbiology.
As to genetic engineering, I do not consider it a correct usage of engineering term, it is really genetics. Bio engineering is indeed a type of engineering though. Geneticists deal with the study, development and effects of alteration of DNA, RNA & the genome. Geneticist would deal with disease, age and alteration for feature augmentation (basmati rice, red delicious apples or albino mice) Working completely with natural media, albeit in maybe an unnatural setting. To be engineering, it would need to involve artificial or unnatural media to the natural cellular process. This would be the study of bio engineering which is working to merge engineering with biology. Currently in the organ/limb augmentation/replacement stage. Maybe possible in the distant future to successfully delve into the cellular level via nanotechnology. I also checked with my sister who is an established bio chemist dealing with protein synthesis and she also agreed that it technically is not correct to label genetics and micro/cellular biology as engineering.
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Originally Posted by raj87verma88
Let us first define a doctor
A doctor is anyone with a doctoral degree in a particular subject. It is incorrect to refer to a person with a medical degree as doctor but since 19th century physicians are being called doctor and with passage of time this belief has become stronger. I assume here you mean the medical profession.
An Engineer is a person who solves problems. They apply the laws of nature discovered by scientists to solve problems or create something new that would be helpful for people in other professions.
Therefore considering all views I think that a genetic engineer is an engineer. The laws governing the genetics of a person remain the same. A genetic engineer works in the boundary of these laws to produce things that would help doctors in fighting some diseases, farmers to produce better crops eg the genetically modified rice called Basmati, and other such applications
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