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TASK Not all doctors do the same thing every day. **Some doctors work in an office, others in the hospital,laboratories where they develop new medicines and research cures**! **Doctors** see patients, **run and interpret tests, prescribe medicines or treatments, talk to patients about how to stay healthy, respond to emergencies, and regularly read books and medical journals or take classes to keep their knowledge up-to-date!**  [|LEVEL OF EDUCATION REQUIRED] To become a Doctor it takes 11 years.4 years of of college.4 years of medical school.and 3 years working in a hospital. [|SALARY] **The median yearly pay of general practitioners were $186,044 in 2008**. **Specialists usually made more, about $339,738 per year.** How much they earned also depended on how long they had been doctors and where they lived. **It also depended on how many hours they worked and how good a doctor they were**.

[|Future prospects/chances of getting this job.] The chances of becoming a doctor are very good the number of physicians and surgeons are expected to retire over the 2008 -18 decade [|Average hours spent on the job.] **Adult workers cannot be forced to work more than 48 hours a ****week** on average - this is **normally averaged over 17 weeks**. You **can work more than 48 hours in one week, as long as the average over 17 weeks is less than 48 hours per week.** [|High school/College or other education/training.]  You'll need to start with a Bachelor's degree. There's no specific requirement for what Bachelor's degree to get, but you do need to get good grades take chemistry, biology, physics, and anatomy, and get good grades in those--many medical schools look at your grades in individual classes, and you'll be rated higher if you get high marks in your science classes than if your high GPA is from your English or history classes.