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Career Essay

Suppose you are in a room with a person that is bleeding out. What tools will you use? How should you deal with the situation? Everyday, surgeons ask themselves these same questions. Becoming a surgeon is tough with a fast paced working environment. It takes a lot of schooling, 4 years of regular school, 4 years of med school, and 4-8 years of hospital residency. But the salary is great with $512,000 a year.

To become a surgeon, you need to be on the ball at all times. You need to know almost every surgery in your area. Say if you are a cardiothoracic surgeon, you need to know how to do a valve repair, a thoracotomy, and etc. You need to handle situations carefully, but also be quick about it. In the middle of surgery, you can’t forget a part or you might kill the patient! If the patient goes into b-fib, you have to know what to charge the paddles to. If you charge them at a low number, chances are that person is going to die. That’s why you go into 8 years of schooling. …show more content…
You need to take classes like AP biology, chemistry, physics, calculus, and more. But you also need to go into med school. Med school gives you classes, but at the same time gives you surgical experiences in the hospital/OR. There they will teach you many things, like how to properly scrub in, the right tools for the right surgeries, how to properly examine a patient, and more. Scrubbing in is one of the most important things of becoming a surgeon. It usually takes them 3-5 minutes, and that’s just for washing their hands. The degree needed is a MD, otherwise known as Med