| There are two types of doctors : Medical Doctor (M.D.) and the doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) | |
| I want to be a Pediatrician(M.D.) because I have always enjoyed being around small children. |
| M.D.’s treat all kinds of diseases . | |
| Some are family doctors, baby doctors, or doctors who know about our insides. | |
| M.D.’s take care of diagnosis, care and treatment of illness, injury deformity, or other anomalies in Humans. |
| It usually takes about 11 years to become a doctor. | |
| You would need to go to 4 years of college and 4 years of medical school. | |
| After medical school, doctors go to work in hospitals for a few years; They are called residents. |
Preparing for the Job (Continued)
| When a doctor is finished with medical school and goes off to be a resident, he/she will not get paid the full salary of a real doctor. | |
| Even though residents are considered doctors, they are still in some sort of training. |
| A doctor over looks records, reports, and other and medical conditions of a patient. | |
| They monitor patients regularly and tell them how they are doing and make them feel better. | |
| A doctor also does several kinds of operations whether it’s to remove, repair, or improve functioning body parts. |
| Reading Comprehension-understand what you are reading | |
| Science-use scientific methods to develop new useful ideas | |
| Active Listening-listen to what others are asking or telling you | |
| Speaking-talk to others with valuable information in a nice steady voice. |
| Monitoring-over look how well or poorly someone is doing | |
| Active Learning-learn to use new and improved material and machinery | |
| Critical Thinking-think fast in any kind of situation |
| Some abilities that a doctor must have are: | |||
| Arm hand steadiness-you must have the ability to keep your arm steady while holding one’s hand as to not prevent nervousness | |||
| Near Vision-you will have to be able to see things clearly that are a couple feet away | |||
| The Wage or salary that a doctor makes is in between $54,142.00 and $207,979.20 | |
| Although a doctor does get paid very well, I would do it just to make people of all ages feel better | |
| The more you know about new technology having to do with a doctor, the more you will be paid |
| About one third of doctors have worked up to 60 hours a week | |
| Older doctors are most likely not to be that busy since the have to mainly concentrate on the patients they’ve had and don’t have to worry on receiving new patients | |
| Doctors who are on call, meaning that anytime an emergency occurs they have to be there, will sometimes have to travel from wherever they’re at to the hospital |
| There are 142 medical schools in the United States | |
| Out of the 142 schools, 125 of them offer an M.D. degree | |
| In order to get into medical school you must to very well in college. |
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