A Career as a Plastic Surgeon

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The very time consuming job of being a plastic surgeon would be interesting because they can make up to $900,000 per year, and they have the ability fix all sorts of problems people have. Some Plastic surgeons also go to 3rd world countries and help the people there who have deformities such as cleft palates. Surgeons get to help rebuild lives after devastating accidents.

Plastic surgeons repair, reconstruct, and remove physical defects they also do cosmetic procedures (Greenwood). Plastic surgeons sometimes specialize in curtain areas of the body such as the head, neck, or hands (Plastic Surgeon; career profile and education). Surgeons do cosmetic procedures such as face lifts (Greenwood). They treat the bones of the face and skull, they repair cleft palates, they reattach severed appendages such as fingers, toes, arms, and legs, surgeons also treat congenital problems (Greenwood). Plastic surgeons repairs, reconstructs, or replaces physical defects of form or function involving skin, musculoskeletal system, craniofacial and maxillofacial structures, hands, extremities, and the trunk (Plastic Surgery). Some surgeons specialize in areas like orthopedic surgery (musculoskeletal system), neurological (brain and nervous system), cardiovascular surgery, and plastic or reconstructive surgery (Statistics). The job of an anesthesiologist is to care for a patient’s pain relief and surgical patient care (Statistics). Surgeon’s jobs are more physical then physicians; surgeons actually operate on patients fixing things such as broken bones, diseases, and deformities (Statistics). There are two types of physicians M.D. (Medical doctors) and D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic medicine) (Statistics). M.D. treat patients using drugs and surgery, but ...

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