I plan to become a doctor. Becoming a doctor requires eight years of schooling, four years of undergraduate study and four years of medical school. A doctor’s career is hard but rewarding. Getting in to medical school is very difficult. Most doctors simply examine patients and prescribe medications, but some perform surgeries and many do valuable research projects that help improve our standard of living. I want to become a neonatologist. A neonatologist is a doctor that specializes in premature infants less than 30 days old. The national average salary of a neonatologist is $215,000 a year. Technology is highly important in this career.

It is hard to find articles on the latest medical technology that can be understood by the average person, but an important medical technology that has been around a hundred years but is still used every day in hospitals all over the world is the X-ray. X-rays allow for internal imaging that is relatively safe, but a downside is that being exposed to too many X-rays can be harmful. Doctors use them to see broken bones some types of cancer, and ingested objects.

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            A mechanical ventilator is another type of essential medical technology that is not terribly complicated, but is necessary. The ventilator is a tube that runs down the trachea either down the throat or through a slit in the neck. A bag that can be squeezed is attached to the tube and air is forced in to the lungs. Another more technological method involves attaching the tube to automatic bellows that communicate with O2 sensors and eliminate the need for a nurse or doctor to operate them

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