Do you need straight A's in the subjects you need to do to become a doctor?
No but you need to get at least a B. Your welcome!! (:
Why would a doctor be a satisfying job?
Even tho being a doctor may be stressful, because you have someones life in your hands, but if you happen to safe a life, think about how much joy you have created!!!
if people cant handle someones life in there hands, it is not a good idea to become a doctor :S
Feel free to Improve my answer :)
What are some possible places of employment for a forensic pathologist?
Forensic Pathologists are usually employed by city, county, or state Medical Examiner's offices. They can also be employed by hospitals or government agencies such as CDC and AFIP (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)
What are common surgical tools used for in surgery?
Do ER doctors have to study medicine?
definitely yes. the fact that their called doctors means that they have completed a medical degree. you know, medicine is such a general term. under it are many other specialties such as cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology among others.
What does the abbreviation of DO after a doctors name mean?
Doctor of Optometry is O.D. and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine is D.O. The old aging DOs in the AOA could help eliminate the disrepancy by changing their initials to M.D., D.O., like the younger D.O.s want. But these old D.O.s are dumb so they don't change their degree to better represent that they are indeed medical doctors.
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The abbreviation D.O. after a physician's name stands for Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. As mentioned in the answer immediately above mine, a Doctor of Optometry, which is different from a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, is given the initials O.D. after their name. The initials often get confused but the professions are quite different.
The DSM-IV is the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental disorders. It's the official book of mental disorders and diagnostic criteria that psychologists use to diagnose patients.
According to the AMA what is a key reason behind a physician's duty of confidentiality to a patient?
Yes you need to stop taking aspirin and ibuprofen 2 weeks before surgery because these medicines thin the blood and make it harder to clot or you run the risk of bleeding heavily and losing a lot of blood which is dangerous and potentially life threatening.
Can doctors of osteopathic medicine prescribe narcotics?
D.O.s (Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine) are equivalent in every way to M.D.s (Doctors of Medicine). Both are able to practice in any field of medicine or surgery and have prescription writing rights.
Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine have full prescription rights and are licensed to prescribe medications when medically appropriate.
Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) and Doctors of Medicine (M.D.) are both full-fledged physicians trained in the United States who attend four years of medical school and are eligible to specialize in any field of medicine after residency training. Additionally, both DOs and MDs may sit for board certification examinations and each type of physician has the same legal and medical responsibilities such as prescribing medications, performing surgery, working in the hospital, medical diagnosis, etc. The difference between a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and Doctor of Medicine is a slight one-Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, in addition to the standard medical curriculum, receive 300-500 hours of instruction in a form of manual therapy known as osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM). This form of therapy is another approach sometimes used by DOs to address a patient's musculoskeletal issues.
Should you go to the doctor if you are bitten by a flea?
It's hard to disinfect a bite wound, and if it's a serious one, a hospital can help a lot. If you want to treat it at home, here's what you need to do: Any bite wound presents the immediate problem of bleeding. Once that is controlled, you need to concentrate on infection. So, once bleeding is controlled, work on prophylacsis. Get a basin of warm water. Add to it hydrogen peroxide (.5C) and betadyne (.25C). Some soap won't hurt. Scrub the wound immersed -- not hard enough to open it, but enough to clean it. Let it soak for at least 20 minutes. Dry it gently, and bandage with a loose, sterile wrap. Check it daily -- if it infects, you're off to the doctor. Change the dressing every day and disinfect with betadyne or H2O2 -- or both -- and re-wrap. The way that dog bites go south is if an infection forms up. If you can stop that by consistent cleaning, and the wound doesn't need sutures, you're home free. If it infects, you're beyond the scope of what you can do at home. Note: Human bites are worse.
Who does the patient medical record belong to?
Doctors and hospitals own the patients entire medical records. Patients can have access to their medical records through electronic means via a computer to the relevant diagnostic tests and diagnosis. A patient can also request certain aspects of their medical records in paper form for a fee.
What kind of doctor is a endometriologist?
Dr.Deepthi Kondagari has done her MBBS from Osmania Medical College, MD in Internal Medicine from Kakatiya Medical College, and attained her dnb in Endocrinology from Yashoda hospital, Secundrabad a 1200 bedded tertiary care hospital.
What is the white jacket that doctors wear called?
They are simply "white coats." Long white coats are traditionally reserved for doctors with the title MD or DO whilst short white coats are worn by medical students.
What is the salary of a cardiologist in the US?
A cardiologist just beginning their career can expect to make an average median salary of about three hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars a year. For the sake of comparison, a twenty plus year veteran cardiologist with a stellar record and a spotless career can be making more than a half million dollars annually.
How do you treat patient effectively?
Be nice to them, Treat them like there the first patient to come to you? Try and answer or help answer their questions and dont leave them scerd about something! Make sure they're comfortable with how you are examining them..
Do doctors written prescriptions expire?
This may depend on the state in which a person resides, but in general most pharmacists will dispense prescriptions which are 6-12 months old, especially if they are for medications for chronic diseases and you have received them on past occassions.
The pharmacist may use his/her judgment in deciding whether to contact the prescribing physician as to filling an older prescription, to make sure that the patient's condition remains the same as when the older prescription was originally written. Examples of prescriptions for meds which might be questioned could include acute illnesses requiring antibiotics, which should have been filled at the time the script was written by the physician.
How do you become a doctor of chiropractic?
Plain and simple you study hard! You would go to chiropractor school.
What Instrument used to listen to heartbeat?
The heartbeat can be measured in several different ways, the most common being to count the beats to get the heart rate - beats-per-minute. This can be done with a watch and a finger on an accessible blood vessel, an artery.
Or you can take an electro cardiogram, where an electronic instrument is attached by leads to the chest and picks up and registers the tiny electric impulses that controls the heart.
Or you can use a stethoscope and listen to the beats.
Or you can use an ultrasound imager, see the movement, the flow and the heart rate.
Do Doctors taper you down on methadone?
Methadone has three medical uses: pain control, maintenance and detox.
In maintenance programs, the addict is given measured doses of a less-intoxicating drug that will allow him or her to function better - take care of business, hold down a job, etc.
While this form of treatment, using Methadone, is popular due to government programs, most addiction professionals consider it unacceptable, as it does nothing to help the person recover from the addiction. The methadone, itself an addictive drug, simply keeps the brain accustomed to the presence of drugs, and does nothing to remove either the need for them or the craving. Put simply, the addict remains an addict - still dependent on drugs in order to function. Combine, with the foregoing, the fact that it is quite possible to get high on Methadone itself, or use it to maintain in between bouts of using other opiates, and you can see that it is not all that it's cracked up to be by the folks with vested economic and bureaucratic interest in its continued use.
Methadone detox is likewise undesirable. At best, an opiate addict has an uncomfortable time in detox. Methadone itself has a longer and more difficult detox than heroin and most other opiates. That means tapering someone off on Methadone will take longer and, if the detox protocol is not followed precisely, the patient is likely to go into full-blown withdrawal. The most common result of that is relapse to the drug of choice.
The bare fact of the matter is that heroin itself is a better choice than Methadone for detox, but it is not legal to use it that way.
The most effective, safest detox protocol is a medically-supervised inpatient program using Suboxone. Opiate detox with Suboxone, properly done, is far shorter and more effective than with other substances, due to its narcotic agonist/antagonist action. The likelihood of relapse is substantially reduced over other drugs and methods, provided that the patient really wants to remain clean.
Having said that, we must caution against the outpatient Suboxone detox that has become widely available in the US and other countries. Outpatient detox is rarely effective, and the doctors providing it are usually not trained in detox procedures. Many of them are storefront operations that, essentially, get the patients hooked on Suboxone and continue to administer it, rather than detoxing the patient and assisting them in finding further help.
What kind of doctors treats a hump in the back?
You need to see an endocrinologist. You probably have excess cosrtisol in your blood. Moonface usually accompanies buffalo hump. This is called cushings syndrome
What is the difference between physician and hospital billing?
Medical billing and physician billing are often used interchangeably. Medical billers take the coded medical record, and bill the insurance company. Medical billers work in doctors' offices, clinics, and hospitals. It is possible for a medical biller to work at home as well.