Respiratory therapists are health-care professionals who work under the supervision of doctors to treat patients who have breathing problems and cardiopulmonary ailments. They provide therapy that relieves patients’ symptoms and restores their functions. When...
Collecting, testing, and analyzing bodily fluids and tissues are the responsibilities of medical laboratory technologists. Also called medical laboratory scientists or clinical laboratory technologists, they prepare cultures of fluid and tissue samples, submit them to...
Phlebotomists are medical professionals who draw blood from patients and submit blood specimens for laboratory testing. They measure blood pressure, as well as pulse and respiration rates. The profession also entails administering injections and inserting intravenous...
General practitioners, also called general-practice doctors or family physicians, are often the first medical professionals patients see when symptoms of illness appear. These doctors must be familiar with a wide range of ailments, diseases, and disorders. They also...
Surgical technologists serve as assistants to surgeons. They are responsible for readying operating rooms for procedures, sterilizing and laying out the needed medical equipment, and handing instruments to surgeons and nurses during operations. These professionals...
