| At some point, medical students will take some time to | | | | so busy that they stop accepting new patients and will |
| consider which field of medicine they want to focus | | | | only provide care to their existing client base. Also, |
| their studies on. Some will choose to specialize in | | | | many of these doctors will work only traditional |
| certain areas like cardiology, oncology, or neurology. | | | | business hours, which cuts down on the need to work |
| Others will choose to find family practice jobs, which | | | | holidays, weekends, and overnight, as you would find in |
| often involves providing patient care for an entire | | | | hospitals and other such medical settings. While these |
| family, and many times such a doctor will care for | | | | doctors may still make themselves available to patients |
| patients from infancy and well into adulthood. | | | | after hours, their patients are largely not in need of |
| There are many advantages to working in family | | | | critical care and so interruptions in their personal lives |
| practice jobs. For one, with the long term nature | | | | by patients is far less. This makes it far easier for such |
| between doctor and patient in these jobs, a bond of | | | | a doctor to enjoy a fairly normal family life. |
| trust develops. The doctor often knows each patient | | | | There are a great many advantages to family |
| well, which makes it easier to diagnose and treat | | | | practice jobs, and for this reason, many people in |
| problems. When major health issues arise, such a | | | | medical school will consider this job over specialties |
| doctor often can more easily spot the problem than a | | | | that require even more time in school and that largely |
| doctor who is unfamiliar with the patient. | | | | don't offer the many advantages that being a family |
| From a business standpoint, most of these doctors will | | | | doctor offers. |
| build their business through referrals. Some will become | | | | |