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Gabriela Carrillo
Language Arts
Mrs. Kidd
3rd period
1/13/15
Career Research Rough Draft
Choosing a career is one of the biggest decisions people make in their lives and while
some have a hard time deciding what they want to do in life, others already know what their
calling is and have no problem in choosing between the mass of career options that exist in this
world. Since a young age I’ve known what I wanted to do with my life. At the age of seven my
grandma died of a tumor and I was heartbroken, but her death made me realize that I wanted
to do something that involved helping people and making them feel better and in that moment
my career was set. I thought about doctors and how they help the sick and always make me
feel better when I was sick and I knew that that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up. Around
2 years later I found out that there was a whole range of different doctors out there to choose
from and it was pretty overwhelming but I became intrigued and unlike most kids my age I
actually enjoyed going to all the Doctor appointments and seeing how things worked in a
doctor’s office. Since then science has become a passion of mine and I’ve become very
interested in medicine and how the body works and reacts to different things. After years of
thinking of what type of branch of medicine I wanted to go into I recently decided to become a
physician, some one who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining
or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and
other physical and mental impairments. There is a long history of physicians and many
requirements to get the job as well as different positions and thinks to do to become a
physician.
Physicians have been practicing medicine in the U.S for centuries but they became very
relevant to the United States in the early 1960’s and because there was very few physicians a
man by the name of Eugene A. Stead Jr. put together a group of Physician assistants who
graduated in October of 1967. World War 2 made the demand for physicians that much
greater. Medicine has been being practiced for centuries and the first ones were known as
healers, healers were able to mix different plants and liquids to make medicine that helped the
sick. There were very few that could master the skill of healing therefore they were believed to
have supernatural abilities in some tribes. There are paintings that have been recorded to be
over 27,000 years old and showed people using plants and remedies for medicinal purposes.
This is became the first medical knowledge base, and has then been passed down through
tribes. The famed Greek physician Hippocrates is one of the most famous figures to this career
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because he was influenced by Egyptian and Babylonian and therefore wrote the Hippocratic
Corpus, this is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece
associated with Hippocrates and his students. Hippocrates also invented the Hippocratic Oath
for physicians, which is very much still being used today.
To become a Physician one must first complete medical school and earn their MD
degree and even after this is done there is still additional training required before one can start
practicing medicine on patients. One should major in chemistry, human genetics, or physics in
order to receive a bachelor’s degree in science and biology and become a physician. Some
colleges that offer this program are the University of Utah and Columbia State University, both
of this colleges have excellent medical programs. To get to this career one should take a college
medical class while still in high school, one should also get a CNA license to start off and
complete an internship at a medical office to see how the career works. The route to getting to
this job is very difficult and time consuming, one has to learn everything related to medicine
and make some tough decisions, it takes 8 to 10 years to become a certified physician therefore
there is a lot of things that have to be done. To succeed in this career one must learn to
separate their social life from their work life and not let a bad day influence how they treat
their patients. One should also have good communication skills, and should be able to make
good decisions and be willing to help others.
On a daily basis Physicians examine patients that aren’t feeling well and help them in
deciding what the best route for treating them will be, whether it be medication, seeing a
another specific type of doctor, surgery, or just at home treatments. Physicians spent an
average of 57 hours a week working at hospitals. The ones working below are the PA’s or
physicist assistants they report to and help the physician. The income for a physcician ranges
$239,000 to $258,000. Many health benefits come with the job and it’s not as expensive to pay
the medical bills in case of a catastrophe. Physicians usually receive an amount of 26 paid
vacation days a year.
The most challenging things of become of a physician would be how time consuming it
is, one spends many hours a day at the hospital and doesn’t have time for many things
especially to sleep. It can also be stressful and difficult. Although there are many more
advantages like having the satisfaction of helping others, good income, making a difference,
earning peoples respect, and learning new skills and experiences in life. This career is very
helpful to the community because there are many new diseases and sicknesses occurring and
doctors are specifically trained to do all they can to help patients get better and help them
through whatever they are going through.
Overall a physician is important to society because they save lives. People who have
been drastically injured or are very sick need a doctor to help them get better and attend to
them. They also extend life; they offer medicines and treatments that help those with critical
diseases live longer than expected. Not only that but they also come up with new treatment
discoveries and medicines every day to help with all the sicknesses present today. This career is
perfect for me because it’s what I’ve wanted to do all my life, I want to be able to help people
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and make them feel better. I want to make a difference in someone’s life and know that I did all
I could to help that person and I succeed.
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