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Hope
Student
Landrum, South Carolina
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Angelica Santana
Technical Recruiter
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Angelica’s Answer
It depends on the type of doctor, as the answers will vary depending on this. To give you an idea, I worked in an outpatient orthopedic clinic after graduating college and worked with surgeons in Sports Medicine, but there were other areas including pediatrics, hand and foot, adult and trauma. All of the doctors would be in clinic a few days a week and then the other days they were in surgery. There was a rotation for being on call for emergencies as well, which were usually outside of their normal set schedules.
Often, the surgeons had Physician Assistants and/or Nurse Practitioners assisting them in surgery and with seeing patients in clinic, so if a surgeon was not in clinic on a given day, the PA or NP could still see them in the clinic. The patients that were coming in for clinic were either new patients, follow-ups, pre-op or post-op. Visits could vary between 15-20 minutes to over an hour. In the clinic there were a number of things that doctors, PAs and NPs would have done such as X-Rays, injections, ultrasounds, cast application/removal, brace fitting, suture/staple removal and wound dressings. The doctors would sometimes even follow up with their patients from their on-call ER shifts. Most of the time in between patient visits, doctors spent their time in the bay dictating notes and answering questions forwarded from their secretaries regarding their other patients.
Again, each type of doctor is going to have a different day-to-day, especially if they are a general practitioner or a specialist.
Often, the surgeons had Physician Assistants and/or Nurse Practitioners assisting them in surgery and with seeing patients in clinic, so if a surgeon was not in clinic on a given day, the PA or NP could still see them in the clinic. The patients that were coming in for clinic were either new patients, follow-ups, pre-op or post-op. Visits could vary between 15-20 minutes to over an hour. In the clinic there were a number of things that doctors, PAs and NPs would have done such as X-Rays, injections, ultrasounds, cast application/removal, brace fitting, suture/staple removal and wound dressings. The doctors would sometimes even follow up with their patients from their on-call ER shifts. Most of the time in between patient visits, doctors spent their time in the bay dictating notes and answering questions forwarded from their secretaries regarding their other patients.
Again, each type of doctor is going to have a different day-to-day, especially if they are a general practitioner or a specialist.
Rahul Arora
Doctor
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New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Rahul’s Answer
An overdue emphasis on the overarching construct of defining your feeling needs to be avoided. It is important to think lucidly before you start basing important decisions in your life on your feeling. I am aware that the temptation to give primacy to feelings over rationale thinking is overpowering (in the hypervirtual world) but allegiance to logic remains most important.
Paul Morris
Sales Representative
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Paul’s Answer
Hello Hope
An alternative way in having this question answered is for you to experience it yourself in real time. One way to do that is to volunteer at a local clinic or a hospital and "shadow" a physician or multiple physicians and you can see what they do on a daily basis and you can get their perspective and insight while they work. It might be helpful to work with or interact with a few doctors as each individual will have a different perspective which will allow you to have a broader appreciation of what it is like to be a doctor.
I hope this is of help
Paul
An alternative way in having this question answered is for you to experience it yourself in real time. One way to do that is to volunteer at a local clinic or a hospital and "shadow" a physician or multiple physicians and you can see what they do on a daily basis and you can get their perspective and insight while they work. It might be helpful to work with or interact with a few doctors as each individual will have a different perspective which will allow you to have a broader appreciation of what it is like to be a doctor.
I hope this is of help
Paul