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What I usually say is you should only go to medical school if you want to do the things that a doctor does. If you want to see patients, diagnose conditions, and provide treatments to them (or in the case of genetics, counseling patients and their parents), then you need to go to medical school.
If you want to do research you can do it with an MD alone, so long as you want to do some of the MD aspects...
If you don't want to do the things a physician does, then a PhD is the only way to go. An MD is just wasted time. It requires extra time, you have to do a residency and a lot of time spent NOT doing research.
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