What are all the types of doctors and what do they do?

Question

I want to be a some kind of doctor so i would like 2 know all the kinds of doctors to see which 1 i might be interested in. Thanks

Answer 1

Anesthesiologists - An anesthesiologist is the one who 'puts you out' for surgery and who monitors the patient's vitals.

Dermatologists - If you have a skin problem, go see a dermatologist. As a dermatologist you'll diagnose and treat things like psoriasis, eczema, skin cancer, scabies, and acne.

Emergency Medicine Doctors - If you have ever watched the television show ER, then you have a rough idea as to what emergency medicine doctors do. They work in a hospital's emergency room, responding to myriad medical conditions.

Family Practice Doctors or General Practitioners - As a family doctor you'll have regular patients, whole families, who see you for referrals to specialists, for sprained ankles, skin problems, you name it.

Neurologists - If the brain and central nervous system are fascinating to you, then become a neurologist. In this field you may be treating spinal cord injuries or deep brain injuries.

Obstetricians/Gynecologists - As an OB/GYN you could work in a hospital, private practice, or both. Your patients will be women. Every day you will be consulting on pregnancies and childbirth related issues as well as other women's healthcare issues.

Oncologists - Treating cancer is what an oncologist does. Oncologists may end up specializing in the treatment of specific cancers.

Pediatricians - Do you like working with and being around kids? If so, then become a pediatrician. It's a very rewarding job, and you'll often have a steady, devoted clientele.

Plastic Surgeons - Are you the next Dr. 90210? As a plastic or cosmetic surgeon your job will be extremely varied, from doing breast augmentations and facelifts to helping burn victims.

Psychiatry - Unlike psychologists, a psychiatrist is a medical doctor who has graduated from medical school and can prescribe medications. You will be working with people who suffer from a variety of mental illnesses, and could be located in a hospital's psychiatric ward or in private practice, or both.

Urologists - Ah, the dreaded bladder infection! Time to go see your family doctor, who might refer you to a urologist, a type of doctor specializing in ailments related to the urinary tract.

Best,

Ali

Answer 2

Today, there's an awful lot of different specialties and the scope of the work that various physicians do varies drastically.  Some physicians e.g. Family Practioners, Internal Medical doctors, Pediatricians and vaious subspecialists diagnose and treat patients primarily through "medical" means, i.e. recognizing what's wrong and attempting to correct it with medication or other non-surgical techniques.

Other doctors are surgeons or surgical subspecialists and diagnose and treat disease by way of manipulation of anatomy (i.e. surgery) in order to treat an illness which is amenable to such an approach.  Medicine is so complex in the modern era that physicians work together to find the most suitable manner in how to diagnose and treat a patient, which involves referals to other specialists for their opinion on how to best approach the treatment of a given patient.

Other physicians are a critical part of everday clinical medicine but don't fit neatly under either "subheading," e.g. Psychiatrists, Radiologists, Pathologists, Anesthesiologists, etc.  But all these types of physicians collaborate in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.  They each undergo different post-graduate training and so forth.

Other physicians limit the scope of their work to clinical research, wherein they use their medical knowledge in order to help find novel treatments for diseases.

Suffice it to say, there's a lot of different avenues for a physician to consider after obtaining her/his degree, and quite frankly, it's only reasonable to make a determination about which specialty is most suitable in the latter years of medical school, where you'll have first-hand exposure to the type of physician you want to be.  Even though many of us enter medical school with a very keen interest in a given specialty, a lot of us change our minds as we advance in our med school training and choose, for any number of reasons, to pursue a specialty that we hadn't planned on.

So, I think it's great that you want to become a physician, it's a tough road to get to where you wanna go, but ultimately many gain satisfaction with the niche they choose.  I don't know how old you are at this point, but I encourage you to involve yourself in volunteering in medical settings and getting a sense of what clinical medicine is like, interacting with physicians and other health professionals to determine if it still seems like it's a good career choice, but my advice is to keep an open mind about what type of physician you wish to be because until you really get to know the nuts of bolts of a given specialty, it's really like diving into something blindly.  For now, be sure to work hard, study to get high marks, try to speak to physicians who your family may know to get their input and so forth.  When you get to college and medical school, you'll be in a far better position to determine what suits your interests best.

I wish you luck and hope this helps a bit.

Answer 3

There are so many different ones that it would take too long to go over them all, so here are a few:

Oncologist

Orthopedist

Cardiologist

Gastro......

Internist

Neurologist

Pulmonary

Gynecologists

Podiatrist

Pediatricians

Psychiatrity

Immunology

Cardiovascular

Comsetic

Dermatology

Diabetes

Ear, Nose, & Throat

Endocrinology

Family

Hematology

Head and Neck

Neonatal

Nephrology

Urology

Thoracic

Radiology