ER doctor? Best answer on the web
ex. salary, hours, years of school.
Hours - vary, but you can count on 50-60/week as a minimum and, because people have emergencies at any time, you will be working any time. Days, night, weekends or holidays and, depending on your facility, 12 or 24hour shifts. You will also be on call on certain weekends (meaning that, if they need help, you have to come in and help).
School - 4 years for a BS degree then onto your med school, internship, residency, board testing.... look at about 8-10 years from start to finish.
ER doctors are also required to keep up other certifications such as Advanced Trauma Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support and many others. An ER doctor may also be a medical director for the local ambulance service. This means that he/she is the one who decides what paramedics and EMT's can do in that area and authorizes them to do it. An ER doctor has full responsibility for stabilizing a critical patient until they are moved to a specialty care unit or into surgery. They deal with the most critical patients that come into the hospital.
They do a LOT more but this should give you some idea of what they do.
Hope this helps!
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