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What do hospital doctors do?
Hospital doctors examine patients so that they can diagnose and treat health conditions and diseases. GPs (general practitioners) and other health professionals refer patients to hospital doctors.
Medicine is a very wide field with many possible specialisms. Some doctors work in general medicine. Others may specialise in an area such as:
- Anaesthetics – numbing areas of the body to relieve pain or putting people to sleep for operations
- Cardiology – the heart
- Dermatology – the skin
- Emergency medicine – treating patients in A&E (the accident and emergency department)
- Neurology – the brain
- Obstetrics and gynaecology – pregnancy and childbirth
- Ophthalmology – the eyes
- Paediatrics – sick and injured children
- Pathology – investigating the cause and effect of disease
- Psychiatry – mental health
- Radiology – X-ray diagnosis
- Surgery – performing operations
- Trauma and orthopaedics – problems with bones and joints, which have happened in an accident or developed over time
The roles and responsibilities of a doctor depend on the specialism. For example, a surgeon’s job is very different to a psychiatrist’s job.
Duties of a doctor
- Monitoring and caring for patients in hospitals and clinics
- Investigating, diagnosing and treating the health conditions of patients
- Prescribing and reviewing patients’ medication
- Taking accurate notes, as a legal record and for other healthcare professionals to use
- Working with other doctors, healthcare professionals and management staff
- Educating people about their health
- Teaching and supervising trainee doctors.
More senior doctors may also:
- Manage a team or department and organise workloads
- Research and review processes.
Working environment and hours
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Doctors work in a range of different environments, including:
- Consulting rooms
- Hospital wards
- Outpatient clinics (where patients don’t stay overnight)
- Operating theatres
- Special departments, like A&E (Accident and Emergency).
Doctors in the UK mainly work in the public sector, for the NHS (National Health Service). Some work in the private sector.
They work long hours. Their shifts are planned on a rota system, and it includes overnight and weekend work.
The National Careers Service says that doctors in hospitals tend to work 48 hours per week, but this will depend on the specialism.
Some doctors also need to be available in case of emergency, when they are not at work. This is called being ‘on-call’.
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