NHS Opportunity: Hospital Doctor

Hospital doctor Current Vacancies

2006-11-27:

Hospital doctors diagnose and treat illness, disease and infection in patients admitted into hospital or treated in outpatient clinics.
They examine patients and carry out necessary treatment.
Patients may be referred by a GP or other doctor, or admitted to hospital as an emergency.
Hospital doctors work within one of 50 specialist fields in hospital medicine.
Some doctors are general surgeons, others specialise in areas like neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery or plastic surgery.
Specialists in this field include histopathologists diagnosing disease from changes in tissue structure, chemical pathologists detecting biochemical changes related to medical conditions, molecular geneticists identifying abnormalities in DNA and chromosomes and medical microbiologists identifying micro-organisms causing disease.
Psychiatry: psychiatrists work with patients with mental illness or disability, prescribing drugs and managing drug regimes for their patients.
Hospital doctors work very long and irregular hours, especially the more junior staff.
Generally, working conditions in hospitals are clean, modern and comfortable.
Hospital doctors work in different settings depending on their speciality.
There are approximately 62,000 hospital doctors in the NHS.
There are also an increasing number of doctors in private hospitals.
There are limited opportunities for hospital doctors in the armed forces.
Most NHS consultants do some private work and the number of patients paying for private medical consultations, treatment and surgery is increasing.
Consultants often supplement their income with private work.
Those working in private sector hospitals may negotiate higher fees Junior doctors and senior house officers can earn between 20,000 and 35,000 a year. (Permalink)

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