alright so im 14 years old and know i want to be some sort of doctor. i really dont want to surgery but i would like to work with broken bones or babies what do ortho techs do??? and is there a type of doctor that does pregnancies but not surgerY????
2007-09-03 03:29:13 · 5 answers · asked by 80) 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
btw im not freaked out by blood at all its just the fact of how major surgery is. like one slip and oopps i cut ur leg off or something but thxx for the answers so far and im open to plenty more!!!
2007-09-03 14:26:32 · update #1
First ask yourself...do you want to be a doctor because of the title or do you want to skip all the schooling and training and be happy assisting in an alliad-health field like physician assistant or midwife.
A midwife does deliver babies without the surgical part but she is educated through nursing school and then does post graduate work just around taking care of pregnant women and delivering babies. Depending on the state or region you may work by yourself or some choose to work under the supervision of an doctor.
Good Luck!
2007-09-03 04:40:22 · answer #1 · answered by J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's the sight of blood that worries you perhaps radiography would be the best field. Here you're working with broken bones but in X-Ray. Or you could do ultrasound scanning stuff. You could be a midwife, but there will be blood and some surgery involved. Or you could be a doctor that specialises in Paediatrics (works with children). No surgery involved there, just diagnosing. However, training to be a doctor is hard work, and you need to study hard for the rest of your education.
Oh, and in training, you'll have to do surgery anyway. You have to do everything before you decide what to specialise in.
2007-09-03 18:10:47 · answer #2 · answered by The Lilac Pilgrim 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you're going to do babies, you'll have to be prepared, since as many as a third of them are delivered through the "ABC--alternate birthing canal" of C-sections. At your age, though, you're too far away to be thinking about a specialty. You have high school, college, and almost three quarters of medical school to get through before you even need to start thinking about a specialty, and your perspective will change during that time, especially your third year of medical school.
2007-09-03 13:56:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an MD. If you want to be a doctor then you must study your eyes out for years on end. I went to school for 13 years after high school, and that is fairly typical. (The minimum amount of school nowadays is 11 years after highschool, making you about 29 as a new doctor, assuming you didn't skip any grades.) I hope this helps.
2007-09-03 11:26:25 · answer #4 · answered by Sciencenut 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
OB-GYN?
2007-09-03 10:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by > 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋