Ask Me Anything April - Locked

I feel as if the longer I do research the more I dislike it. I'm already grateful for having a job at the hospital currently and I seem to enjoy it more than my previous full time research academic.

Is it true that most of your research work is primarily assisting a professor out on running experiments? Also are you able to attain a PhD without engaging in your own thesis? Can you use your professor's own thesis and branch off a little bit in doing something related or is that completely unnecessary in order to get the degree.