Pretty sure he is. I've met enough people not too far off from him in real life that I don't doubt it.

He really is a great study in how the intellectual practice of medicine started.

Science really did all start with somebody say "Hey, X+Y=Z....there for Y=2."

I want him to write a book.

they may have meant "I am pretentious and ignorant and despise my homosexuality so look at me!"

Star Trek medicine.

"We got malaise in the calcified bio tubes, use the starch hydrolysis energizer to relieve the hemorrhage in the mind body toolbox."

"Will there be sexual dysfunction, doctor?"

"Not if we maintain the density of the compromised ether layer."

On your way out, try filling a hypospray with twenty CCs of Neelix's blood and just fire that shit straight into your jugular. Who needs a holodeck?