Pediatrician

Why did you choose this career?

It’s something that’s challenging, but worth the challenge because you’re helping people almost every day. It’s something that has structure to it, but you deal with different cases on different days and are presented with new problems to solve and challenges to accomplish. Unlike certain work environments, you’re interacting with different people on different days. I like the feeling of helping people, and working with children in particular is my strong point when it comes to communication.

What type of work does someone with this career do?

Pediatricians deal with medical care for infants, children, and teenagers. Along with prescribing medicine and diagnosing illness in this specific age group, pediatricians examine well patients and are able to give them advice and/or counseling with their health.

Where?

Two prospective places of work for this profession could be at a practice or at a hospital, often a children’s hospital. I would personally like to work at a practice, because it’s a combination of helping well and ill patients more than a hospital. This could be done almost anywhere in the country; something I would love to do along with working in a practice would be to help with medical care in less fortunate countries outside the US.