I want to do autopsies?

Question

My job that I want to do is autopsies, except I have to move away from my home town and all my friends thinks its gross just because I'm a girl... However I really want to do them and what O.P score do have to have and what to study?

Answer 1

If you want to perform autopsies, then you'll have to become a pathologist, which is a medical doctor who has specialized in the study of disease and its diagnosis.  If you're a pathologist in a hospital, you won't do many autopsies, as they aren't performed with the frequency in past years.  However, you can become a medical examiner.  An ME performs autopsies on all criminal cases and other suspicious deaths.  If you go to www.ascp.org, you can find out a lot of information about pathology.  There is also a good article on that site about Dr. Garavaglia, which might be interesting to you.

If you want to assist at autopsies, then consider becoming a medical technologist or a pathologist's assistant.  This will require about 4-5 years of college and can be a very interesting and rewarding field of work.

People who have no exposure to laboratory science or pathology have no idea just how interesting the work is.  It takes a person of intelligence who loves solving puzzles.

You can go to www.ascp.org to find out more about pathology.  There's an article on their site on Dr. Garavaglio which you might find interesting.

By the way, I was an administrative director of a hospital laboratory for many years and our pathologist (clinical director) was a female.

Answer 2

learn medicine then, and go to a decent uni - and put in alot of effort.  It takes alot of time and money to get there, oh and its underpaid and there aren't enough jobs to go about either - all the best anyways