Cardiologist

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Duties and Responsibilities: There are two subjects in this career like one would be a Cardiologist and the other Interventional Cardiologist. The cardiologist is a physician who treats and diagnoses disease and injury of the heart and cardiovascular system. On the other hand a interventional cardiologist is a physician who performs a variety of invasive tests and procedures to assist in diagnoses of and treatment of cardiac disease.

Salary: $461,000 - $512,000

Education: To be a cardiologist you have to do 4 years of undergraduate school, 4 years of medical school, and 3 to 8 years of internship and residency, depending on the specialty selected. A few medical schools offer combined undergraduate and medical school programs that last 6 years to 8 years.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I don’t think I would like to be one because if something is wrong with the heart you will have to do a heart surgery and I’m not a person that likes to see an open body with blood inside it.