re must be a desire to serve patients, self-motivation and the ability and stamina to survive the long hours of work and medical education. There must be excellent eye and finger coordination, to perform surgery. Emotional stability is a quality that one must possess in the stressful, emergency situations a physician faces.Physicians make up many of the jobs held in the work force today. Between 1992 and 1996, the availability of jobs increased from 556,000 to 560,000. Two out of three physicians jobs were in an office practice. One fifth were employed in hospitals. Today more physicians are becoming partners and salaried employees of a general practice. Family practices, internal medicine, surgeons, and pediatricians account for the highest number of physicians. Newly trained physicians will experience more competition as they seek and start practices of their own and there is more than average growth expected through the year 2006.Physicians are among the highest paid professionals of any occupation. A physicians earnings depend on weather they are salaried or are employed by or own a private practice. Specialty, skill, number of years in practice, and professional reputation will also help to determine earnings. The average income in 1991 was $170,600, with a range from $95,000 to $210,000. In their first year of practice the average salary was $34,613. The highest paid type of physicians, were surgeons with a rate of pay of $225,339 per year. Pediatricians were the next highest paid, with $142,266, making up their earnings, and family practitioners making $137,312 per year. Some benefits that a physician receives are paid vacations, holidays, and sick days. Life insurance, health insurance, retirement benefits are also included as benefits received by physicians. Some may receive paid educational leave.I have discovered throughout this paper that a career as either a pharmacist or physician would be perfect careers ...
