Paid for doing research?

If you want to do medical research, there are a number of jobs exist in that field. Often medical researchers have medical doctor degrees. They could work for universities, for pharmaceutical companies, for government organizations, and others. They may also be working at hospitals (many of which are actually university affiliated). They are doctors, and absolutely paid for their work, but that does not mean that all doctors have the opportunity to do research. If you want to be a doctor and would also like to do research, you will have to tailor your classes in college and in medical school to sort your goal. You will have to have excellent science and math grades in order to qualify for many of the schools you would want to attend. If you are not doing exceptionally well in your science and math classes, you will either need to significantly step up your performance, or you may not be eligible for this career, due to the very significant skills you would have to develop in order to perform you're duties.