A Day In The Life Of A Cary Pediatrician

If you happened to ask a pediatrician from Cary (or Cary pediatricians for that matter), what their typical day is like, any idea what they will say? In this brief article we will focus on what it is like to be a pediatrician. Where the rubber hits the road, here is what it is routinely like:

Why did they become a pediatrician? Most will say that they always wanted to be a doctor. It was while they were in medical school that they decided to focus on the study of pediatrics. It is in the third year of medical school that you begin to work with patients more. You will be doing what are called rotations, spending times in various sections of the hospital. Some of these sections will be surgery, psychiatry, family practice, internal medicine, delivering lots of babies, and of course pediatrics. Most will say that they liked the area of pediatrics.

What is a typical work day like in the life of a pediatrician? It often starts by going to the hospital and making the rounds of seeing new deliveries and visiting any ill children that have been hospitalized during the night. Normal office hours typically start at 8:30am (or 9:30am) and end around 4pm to 5pm. A typical lunch can run for about and hour or so. While at the office pediatricians will usually have two types of appointments. The first type of appointment is when a child gets ill and needs some medical attention. The second type is your typical scheduled appointment for various checkups and shots. In a typical week a pediatrician will see about one hundred and twenty-seven patients (that includes at the office and in the hospital).

What are the work hours like? Well the typical work week is around 50 hrs. This is spent visiting hospital patients, working in the office, being on call of course, and doing all the various types of paperwork that comes with this sort of profession these days. While they are on call they might need to go see a sick patient in the hospital. Not everything can be resolved with a simple phone call. If the pediatrician is in the office by himself he is always on call unfortunately. This is why many will choose to work as a team in an office setting. In this particular way they can share the responsibilities.

What about salary? They are paid quite well as you might suspect, depending on which particular profession you would like to compare them with. The average annual wage for a pediatrician is $135,400 per year, but this particular statistic is from way back in 1993, so they unquestionably make more than this these days. The range of pay can vary from about $60,000 to $400,000. Typically, the more patients a pediatrician sees, the more money he or she will make mind you.

Interested? If this does sound appealing you might end up as a pediatrician one day!