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If you like to help people, solve mysteries, and take things apart only to put
them back together, this career may be for you. Doctors work to understand
how the human body functions and to heal it. Doctors usually specialize in
one specific area of medicine: some study diseases and try to find cures,
some monitor pregnancies and deliver babies, and others work with police
to determine causes of death in murder victims.
Top Ten
Doctors Do It All
There are many kinds of doctors who do lots of different jobs, each requiring
special skills and expertise. Here are ten types of doctors who work to take
care of patients’ health, uncover new treatments, solve crimes and more.
ANESTHESIOLOGIST:
Anesthesiologists help patients to lose feeling or consciousness before
surgery and to wake up again safely. Once a patient is asleep, or a small
area of a patient’s body is numb, surgery can be performed without the
patient feeling any pain. Anesthesiologists work closely with surgeons and
patients, so they need to be good team players.
FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST:
Forensic pathologists collect medical evidence for criminal investigations
MEDICAL RE SEARCHE R:
Doctors in medical research spend most of their time in laboratories. They
perform tests and experiments to find treatments and cures for illnesses,
resulting in new medicines and technologies. These doctors can work for
years on a single medical mystery, so they have to exercise a lot of patience
and possess creative problem-solving skills.
PLASTIC SU RGEON:
Plastic surgeons operate on a patient’s appearance. Often they fix scarring
or disfigurement on patients born with deformities or victims of bad
accidents or fires. They may need to operate many times before getting the
desired results, so they must be skilled at explaining the process and have
patience to work toward a long-term goal.
PSY CHIATRIST:
Psychiatrists are doctors who work to treat mental illness. Mental diseases
are often hard to detect because they show up more in a patient’s behavior
than on a patient’s body. Psychiatrists need to be careful listeners and
observers, and possess a great deal of compassion and insight.
SU RGEON:
Surgeons help fight illness by performing operations on patients. Surgeons
are good at taking things apart and putting them back together again
without making any mistakes. Their work is precise and risky, so they must
have steady concentration. Since surgery can be messy, they can’t be afraid
of blood and guts.
If you can make it through this activity without getting too grossed out, you
may be on your way to becoming a great doctor!
(Hey – don’t forget to clean up! Maybe in a few years when you’re a big
surgeon there’ll be a hospital technician to take care of the washing up, but
for now you’ll need to grab a soapy sponge and get busy.)
Q&A
Q. What a re y our f a vo rite and least f a vo rite p a rts o f y our jo b,
and why?
Dr. Stephen M., who has been a heart doctor, or cardiologist, for the last 30
years, says:
My least favorite part about being a doctor is dealing with hospital politics.
As a doctor, I have to share the operating rooms, laboratory space, nurses,
vacation time – everything I need to do my job – with other doctors and
hospital staff, according to hospital rules. This takes a lot of cooperation and
compromise and has very little to do with healing patients.