Can someone help me find a good medical career?

I am a college student right now in medical transcription. I don't know if this is what I want to do. I enjoy studying medical terminology, Anatomy, and some Medical Office. I am in search of a medical career that doesn't involve working or operating on people. I am not that good at laboratory classes, but I do understand medical concepts, and I am good at the computer. I want a medical career that pays well, where I don't have to operate on people, but involving medical research in an office setting, but not Office Administration, or health care administration. Does anyone have any suggestions about a good career for me?

Medical coding might be for you. I am nearly to the point of having my certificate and had to take A and P 1and 2 and medical terminology. I love it and even better, it pays well. To start medical coders can make upwards of $26 dollars an hour.

Either homeopath or naturopath. They see patients, get histories, consider the whole and decide on a proper treatment or referral - oversimplified explanation. They don't do "invasive" work on people, or surgery.

Our naturopath does collect blood for testing and hair for testing and is considered primary care. He also does some IV therapies and such.

Our homeopath even works via the internet and phone. We've never even been to her office, since she is several states away from us. She collects mostly history and prescribes according to a thorough accounting of ALL symptoms, not just the current complaint. Both need to understand much and know about the treatments they use, but very non-invasive careers. And, very necessary. We could use more well trained in both fields.

I'd check into both more thoroughly and see if it suits you. You could even do both. Many do. We know some that even add chiropractic to that, but that involves more working on patients. Our naturopath is trying to cut down on his chiro visits and refer to an outside chiro now.

Since you asked this in alternative med, I assume you are looking at alt med career possibilities. Sorry our trolls are being a pest. You will find that they never answer anything in positive light of anything but allopathy and drugs. Have a star so you can get some real alt med answers if my contacts notice.

LOST: The category is Alt Med. So you will find alt med users here. Not at all tired of the MDs making the money since it is not my field. I just don't choose to give my money to them anymore unless emergency care for broken bones or something that needs stitching - which we've had happen 2 times in 25 years. I don't think that the asker has gotten any rude answers about Alt Med in this question, but they have gotten rude answers from the MD trolls. Maybe you need to look at the answers again. The only rude answers in the Alt Med I see, are the ones that are from trolls or countering the troll questions that ignore the failing of the allopathic care system while trying to call the Alternative Medicine fields quackery.

Oh, God. ANYTHING BUT homeopath or naturopath.
You might as well become a "psychic" or astrologer.
Get a real education and don't fall into the trap of trying to scam people for a living the rest of your life.

Maybe, Depends on your schooling, and what you want to do. You have your e-mail set on off, so you will need to come to my group and ask me for the link. Gordon P. yahoo group Nutriwell

You could do primary drug research. What this entails is either doing hands on testing of compounds, or what you say you're good at, using computers to test molecules. The latter is done in an office setting and can lead to some pretty exciting drugs. Many anti-retrovirals used to treat HIV were discovered first on a computer.

natural medicine is not scamming people....omgosh....the medical industry is fully corrupt with only money on the mind, I wouldn't suggest getting into the corprate medical field at ALL....I would definatly do somthing like chiropractic work? you study how the body works and the importance of aligning your spine for overall health...very interesting!....anway which ever you decide don't scam people with traditional medicine that will ultimately cause disease and population control.

Has anybody noticed that the people in this section have a major gripe with modern medicine? What's their problem? Tired of them making you look bad by actually helping people? It's funny, they put their trust in techniques that were invented when people had no knowledge of science and they think that the techniques created when we know what's going on are wrong. You people are so right. Awful, awful companies making all those life saving medications. How dare they?!?! They should all be arrested and put in jail.


And to answer your question, you should go into research. It's not all done in labs as a previous (and sane) responder pointed out.

hey scooter as zambiti said try naturopath or homeopath. we use both at our house and love the alternative. i think you'd find that they are very productive and helpful. we need more well trained practitioners in both fields. some areas of country have only allopathy to choose from, and there are many other options. we are loving being in an area where we don't have to rely on mds and emergency rooms. my parents don't have the option though and are always going round in circles of sickness.