What is the best occupation in the medical field for someone who wants to help others?
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i believe that dentistry takes the shortest time (5 yrs+ 1 practical training) but i guess it differs from one place to another. but i have to warn u that it's not easy. my fiance is a dentist and it's hard for both of us to handle it. if u want to literally help people, go for red cross. many of them require u to know first aid only and u can master that in a couple of short courses.\n\ngood luck:)
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Of coarse you will get attached to each patient.You can't be a good Doctor if you don't care for your patients. The attachment is what gives you the drive to want to help these kids get better from their illnesses.\nThere will be times when you won't be able to make everyone well and you will see things that will be hard on your emotions, however each time you will get stronger.\nThere are ups and downs to every career choice. I think being a Doctor is one of the most rewarding and I wish I could go back in time and choose that for my job.\n\nIf its in your heart to become a Doctor then go with that feeling and don't listen to negative feedback even from Family-\n\nGood Luck
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Although there are many opportunities in these areas, I will only highlight two, since I have experience in those areas.  The first is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist (aka-Medical Technologist).  These are the people who generally work in hospital labs, performing the various tests on body fluids that doctors order.\n\nMed techs can choose to work only in the area of Microbiology in the lab.  They culture patient samples and identify any organisms that may grow from those samples.  They also perform susceptibility testing on organisms to help let the doctor know which drugs would work best to treat the patient.  (Med techs can also specialize in Mycology (fungi) and parasitology.)\n\nImmunology is another area that med techs can work in.  Here, they test patients' blood for antibodies in order to diagnose various (often viral) diseases.\n\nAlso, there is also a demand in the field of infectious disease epidemiology.  In this area, epidemiologists try to find the cause, source, etc. of various infectious agents as well as try to find a way to prevent occurences of infectious disease.\n\nSo, that's about all I can tell you in a nutshell.  I hope that helps.
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I'd like to help but, i have no information and what kind of career choice your thinking of.More information please.I mean what's your calling? Have you ever thought about being a missonnary in a different country ?Salavation army or a shelter maybe, like part time?I've been thinking on your question and this one is really tough.To actually still make a well enough wage to feed your family and to want to try enough to actually find how you can help others.I think your a good person that i love to have as a next door neighbor.I think on your problem is over my head.I'm sorry and i wish you and your family all the best life can give.
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I'm in the Med.field too~if you have a real heart for the job&if you really care about people in that aspect,you will ascertain a good time to study hard and focus at your studies~you'll get to where you want to be,a Nurse! helping people. Good luck!
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This doesn't necessarily apply to me directly, though I can appreciate the cynicism in the question. Still, there are plenty of people out there who would like to become doctors out of a genuine desire to help the sick, and we should give those people a pat on the back and a "thanks" for trying to make sure they are there when we *will* need them.
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I would use the yellow pages to find the hospitals in the area and offer to work as a volunteer.\nThen I would look for doctors practicing family medicine and offer to help. \nShould you want to help in one specific specialty, let's say orthopedic medicine or pediatrics, I would call doctors from that area. Volunteer jobs might be limited by legal concerns and privacy concerns.
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I believe that the best profession is really based on your interest level.  Are you a people person or do you prefer to do things on your own by yourself.  If you are a doctor, you have to have the ability to get along with all kinds of people and personalities and you need to know how to build rapport so your patients feel comfortable with you.  If you don’t work well with people, then you need a job where you can do your work without a lot of interactions with people.  An engineer uses instruments and designs things and contact with people in performing the work is limited.  So in deciding what job is best, you have to look at the job requirements and your individual ability to fit in.\n\nBoth make big bucks too,,,,a doctor averages around $100,000 as does an engineer.  It can also depend on specialization.  There are many kinds of engineers and there are many kinds of doctors.
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The medical assistant career is very rewarding and versatile. Most medical assistants work in doctor's offices under the direct supervision of primary care or specialty care physicians. You must be good with people of all ages and from all walks of life. \n\nAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the medical assistant field will be one of the fastest growing occupations in the USA.\n\n\nMedical coders and billers work together to assure health care providers to get paid for their services. The main shared focus area of both careers is the medical office business' financial aspects. It can be said, that the healthcare provider's livelihood and success depend on the medical biller's and coder's skills, dependability, and accuracy. Many working in medical coding and billing eventually specialize in either medical coding, or medical billing only.\n\nThe medical coder primarily focuses on converting a medical procedure, diagnosis, or symptom into specific codes to submit a claim for reimbursement.\n\nThe medical biller assures that health insurance companies and patients are billed for procedures provided by the health care provider, whether this took place during scheduled or emergency medical office, or hospital visits.
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Educating people on something related to their quality of life.  I want to assist people in feeling better somehow.
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Phlebotomist (collects blood from patients.)\nMed tech (nurse's assistant)\nMassage therapist (low stress!)\n\nGood luck!
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Anthropology - B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Plus an A.A. in Spanish Lit. an Lang.).  Good luck with medicine - - you will certainly make more money than I do - LOL!
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If you just want to cuddle newborns, a noble goal by the way, why not just volunteer at a hospital?  If you really want to be a doctor, you will have to deal with sick children, sometimes those who are desperately ill. If the thought of that is too distressing, perhaps you need to find some other way to work with infants, such as a pediatric nurse or child life specialist.  \n\nYou sound very young -- have you ever talked to people who are doing the work you might want to do and discussed the educational commitment, personal sacrifices, emotional stresses, and personal rewards of their professions?  You should consider doing so.
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I would say fields such as health specialties, business, and computer science...
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me persoally would say nursing.\nyou can make your own deal.  set your work schedule.\nyou have so many places you can get work.\nhostipal, dr. office, school, old folks homes, \nthere are emergency room nurses, etc...\n\nbut here is money magazine's list of the 50 best jobs:\nhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/top50/index.html\n\n1 Software engineer 46.07% $80,427 \n2 College professor 31.39% $81,491 \n3 Financial advisor 25.92% $122,462 \n4 Human resources manager 23.47% $73,731 \n5 Physician assistant 49.65% $75,117
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Besides the usual teaching/medical route, you could also consider careers in: \n\nPublic Health Genetics\nPharmacogenomics\nEpidemiology\nNanotechnology\nHealth Law\nBioethics\nMolecular Anthropology\nForensics
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know where to draw the line of helping others and maintaining your self-interest.