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Why I Want to Be a Doctor

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Opening- There are about 701,200 doctors in the United States. And I could be one of them. They treat people when they are sick or hurt. They give advice to patients to help keep them from getting sick. They bandage knees, prescribe medicine, sew up cuts. They bring new babies into the world and comfort older people who are sick or dying. And what made me go into this career was that I always wanted to do something in medicine. And I thought that why not become a M.D. And medicine is something I love to do.

Characteristics- The setting is very neutral maybe a few pictures on the wall. I will hopefully be working in an office. Hopefully my office will have a huge window with a view. I feel working as a doctor I will be out of the …show more content…

But mostly to the serious problems facing our health care system. Raising cost, poor personal health, and rising number of the uninsured. The average salary for a doctor in New York is around 95,000 a year. The nationwide average salary is 78,000 a year.
PERSONAL-
There are two main rewards when it comes to be a doctor. One of the rewards for being a doctor is wealth. The other is great respect in the medical world. Also the benefit of knowing you helped someone live another day. This job is very compatible with my work style behavior. Because it has the main two I want and that is respect and wealth. I expect to make to start out making around 75,000 a year. And then to move my way up. And around half way though my career I expect to be making around 85,000 a year. This career I have chosen makes enough money to support me and my family.
My Plan- The skills that I had at that time was are filing, basic computer skills, basic math skills. But now I have learned more advanced math skills and science. The skills I need now are the advance science classes such as biology and chemistry. Because this job requires a lot of science and math. This career also requires patience and a level head under pressure. If I chose to go to another career, such as a pharmacist. I would be prefect for the job. Basically any career in medicine, I would be prefect it for.
Today-
To begin preparing for this career I could start by taking a lot of math and science

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