| It is estimated that there would be a | | | | limelight. Careers in US in the health sector |
| dramatic increase of 10% in the total | | | | is highly reputed and respected and health |
| employment generation in the US by 2016. | | | | care workers including doctors and nurses |
| However, the career profile will differ in | | | | enjoy high social status and esteem in the |
| various industries and occupational groups. | | | | American society. |
| If the trends of the careers in US are any | | | | |
| indication, Healthcare and social assistance | | | | Every day countless Americans turn to |
| would continue to grow at a healthy rate. | | | | qualified health care workers for all their |
| | | | medical needs. From minor ailments like |
| There will be a creation of 4 million new | | | | common cold and viral fever to life |
| jobs in both public and private hospitals in | | | | threatening conditions like Aids and cancer, |
| nursing, individual health and family | | | | patients throng the hospitals to take the |
| services. This staggering growth of 25.4 | | | | best medical assistance to prolong their |
| percent is a sure shot hint of the widening | | | | lives and to enjoy a healthy life. In |
| gap between the supply and demand of well | | | | addition trauma care and accident care units |
| qualified and experienced health care | | | | also need trained hands including surgeons, |
| personnel. Longer life expectancies has | | | | nurses and anesthesiologists among others to |
| thrown up new challenges in the health care | | | | perform life saving operations and critical |
| sector as it needs to mobilize more resources | | | | care |
| and manpower to take care of the welfare and | | | | |
| health of an ageing population.. | | | | Physicians in casualty units play a very |
| | | | important role in treating patients with life |
| True to the adage, if wealth is lost | | | | threatening ailments and accident victims who |
| something is lost but if health is lost | | | | require urgent medical intervention including |
| everything is lost. These days, every one is | | | | blood transfusion or surgery. Internists |
| overly health conscious and leaves nothing to | | | | would diagnose the condition and prescribe |
| chance. People give top priority to be in the | | | | medication, which would be dispensed by the |
| pink of their health to enjoy a quality life, | | | | pharmacists. In addition there would be an |
| which lies ahead of them. It is heartening to | | | | array of other posts like X-ray technicians, |
| note that in the career search of prospective | | | | maintenance workers, Orderlies, nursing aides |
| employees, health care is one of the most | | | | and so on and so forth. |
| popular options. As long as human beings are | | | | |
| on this earth, the demand for health care | | | | Thus health care services remain one of the |
| workers would be high demand this is where | | | | fast growing sectors with constant demand in |
| the career profile of health workers hogs the | | | | the US. |