What to expect in Emergency Medicine

When working with the field of emergency medicine you are bound to see many different things and mentally need to have the ability to handle them. You are expected to work 10-12 hour shifts, see maybe even a dozen of patients every shift with all different types of reasons on why they are there in the first place. When working you may or may not have to help stabilize patients mentally and allow the right conditions for you to operate and check out the patient in a fashionable time to ensure their health's safety. The long shifts with heavy case loads will cause stress on the doctor who is examining patients on a constant bases. The physician will have to also document everything about the case, just the patient documentation alone could potentially add to a much larger workload and stress. 



Working in this medical field requires physicians to not only have physical endurance but also mental acuity and be able to keep their mind clear in stressful situations. 

          

"Physicians in the emergency department take a medical history, examine the patient, decide which tests to order, make a differential diagnosis (determining, when symptoms are similar, what the disease or condition is), determine treatment and decide whether to admit the patient to the hospital or treat him and send him home."- ExploreHealthCareers.com

Works Cited:

 "ExploreHealthCareers.org." Emergency Medicine. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2015.                           

<                  http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/Career/158/Emergency_Medicine>.

            First Choice Emergency Room. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://www.fcer.com/>.