A Career: Anesthesiology

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The career field I am studying is anesthesiology. The reason I am studying anesthesiology is so I can learn about a possible future career field for me. I choose anesthesiology because it seems to be an interesting career choice. It seems like it would be cool to be one. That is the reason I am writing this paper to so if I would be interested in becoming an anesthesiologist.
Attempts at anesthesia have been around since people have been preforming surgery, no matter how primitive. Early anesthetics were soporifics or narcotics, these dull the senses and induce sleep. A few of the early anesthetics were belladonna a type of plant, alcohol, marijuana, jimsonweed, mandrake, and opium. While all of these gave some pain relief, none of them guarantee sedation. There has also been attempts to use hypnosis to make people fall asleep. By the 1840’s there was two regularly used anesthetics, opium and alcohol. The only bad thing about both of these is they had negatives to go along with the positives. Two of these negatives were addiction, and neither of them could typically completely dull the pain. If you took doses big enough to get the full affect could just as easily kill you. But this all changed when Dr. William Morton soaked a sponge with ether and put it over his patient’s mouth and nose which made him unconscious. When the patient woke he said he had no memory of the surgery and felt no pain. This discovery changed the world of anesthetics forever.
There is about thirty-thousand anesthesiologist employed in the United States. An employment trend is expected to go up 18 percent by 2022.because of this growth trend there is an expected increase of one hundred twenty three thousand three hundred jobs in this career field by 2022. ...

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.... There is also the problem of the long work hours. You could just have worked a long twelve hour shift then get called back in because of an emergency. For most jobs that won’t happen. Also anesthesiologist work up to ninety hours a week most jobs you only work about 45 hours a week. Then if you get a job at like a surgical place you wouldn’t have to have those really long hours, but most surgical places like that want experienced workers so you would more than likely have to start out in a hospital where you have to work those long hours. This is going to be a hard decision to make on whether I want to pursue this career. I don’t think I would still want to do this career after my research it takes a long time to get the training and you have to work long hours. I think I would rather try a career with less training and not such long hours.

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