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Being a physician is a demanding, challenging yet ultimately rewarding career. In the United Kingdom there are over 60 different specialists and types of doctors within the traditional medicine field. As a physician it is possible to narrow your area of expertise to treating one specific organ or one specific condition. There are many doctors that work exclusively with the eye (ophthalmologist) or those that work with conditions such as cancer (oncology). Several doctors focus their treatment to women, children or men and are able to specialize even further.
Within the UK the demand for doctors continues to grow as the average age of the population increases. More and more people are surviving longer and also are coming to doctors more frequently for preventative care. Specialists like surgeons are in constant demand and are often activity recruited from GP trainings to fill gaps in specialty services.
Physicians in the UK are both male and female with almost equal numbers of both genders. A starting GP (General Physician) has a salary range from £40,000 to £50,000, depending on prior experience, and a senior GP can make over £90,000 per year. GP’s that are full partners in a clinic or treatment facility will make considerably more than those GPs employed as hospital doctors.
Most GPs work between 40-50 hours per week plus emergency call outs. Some physicians choose to work additional hours for the convenience of patients.
Some smaller practices, and even some hospitals, recognize the need for house calls and home patient care by a physician. This is often the case from elderly or disabled individuals. Many single physician offices have one afternoon or one day a week where house calls are completed.
There are other options than a GP within the physician category. Specialists are usually employed as hospital physicians or may have some private practice work as well.
Specialist registrars, in their second year of training, earn from £28,000 to £34,000, with the salaries continuing to increase until they reach the level of consultant, which can earn in excess of £90,000 per year. This does not include any private earnings that the specialist may make, which can often add half as much again to their earnings.
Specialists work very long hours, especially in the first few years of training. They are on rotation and on call often having to put in very lengthy days. Since the level of stress and fatigue is so high, many young physicians entering specialty programs leave within the first year. Currently there are limits on the number of hours that doctors can work, at the present time the maximum is 56. In the year of 2009 this number will be further reduced to 48.
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The doctors that do remain in the programs become experts in their area of specialty and often contribute to the medical field that they have chosen.
There are several other types of physicians that are employed in both the community and in hospitals. They include:
- Psychiatrists – these doctors focus on mental health issues and help in treating patients with related conditions. There are many opportunities in this increasingly important area of healthcare.
- Obstetricians and gynaecologists – focusing on women’s reproduction and the care of pregant mothers and their babies, this important field of medicine is constantly evolving and advancing
- Pathologists – like scientists and detectives, pathologists work to help other physicians determine the underlying cause of symptoms and disease. Patholgists are critical in cancer treatments as well as any other diseases or conditions that are accute or chronic.
- Paediatricians – treat infants and small children. These physicians are often working with babies that cannot talk and so they need to be very aware of all the physical and physiological responses of the body, what is normal and what is problematic. They also work with new mothers to help them understand how to care and manage infants.
- Radiologists – work with very specific treatments for diseases such as cancer. Radiologists work as an important part of the treatment team for cancer patients and those in remission and recovery.
- Anaesthetists – used both in surgery and after-care the Anaesthetist works to keep the patient appropriately sedated during surgery and is also responsible for monitoring there recovery immediately after surgery. Anaesthetists work with chronically ill patients that are in pain to develop ways to manage and control pain.
There are several other physicians that may be added to a patients treatment team. These specialists are experts in their field and are in high demand in hospitals in the UK and around the world.
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