What are some types of doctors and their different specialties?
In addition to general practitioners (who treat men, women and children of all ages), doctors specialize in many specific areas of care, such as: oncology (cancer patients), pediatrics (children’s health), surgery and obstetrics/gynecology (women’s health). You can find more information about the many different types of doctors by asking your family doctor, high school career counselor, school librarian and by doing research in a library or on the Internet. Here is a brief introduction to some of the many types of doctors: • A cardiologist diagnoses and treats diseases of the heart and its functions. • An emergency room physician treats all patients who come to the emergency department of a hospital with any variety of complaint, whether they are medical or traumatic in nature. They stabilize patients and then transfer them on to primary care physicians or specialists as needed. • A dermatologist treats patients for various skin problems by performing lab tests, prescribing medicine an
