Doctors typically work shifts in hospitals and clinics, wearing a white coat, scrubs, and stethoscope as they make rounds to examine patients and make diagnoses using medical equipment like scopes. They write prescriptions for medicine and also work with nurses, office staff, and pharmacists who help treat patients and fill prescriptions, while some doctors handle emergencies by taking x-rays or setting broken bones. Most doctors go to school for 8 years followed by 3 years of residency training.

1. A Day In The Life Of A Doctor
Adapted by: Rebecca Newton

2. • Some doctors work shifts in hospitals and also
in clinics.
• They wear a white coat, scrubs, and a
stethoscope.
• Doctors make rounds in the beginning of their
shifts to their patients.

3. How do doctors help?
• They examine patients to make a diagnosis
using a scope to look in the patients ear and
find out why they are not feeling good.
• Doctors write prescriptions for medicine to get
better.

4. Do Doctors need help?
• Many people help doctors:
Nurses work with patients and office workers
make appointments and keep track of charts.
Pharmacists help doctors by filling the
prescriptions for patients.

5. • In emergencies, doctors take x-rays and make
casts to hold broken bones in place.

6. How long do you have to go to school?
• Most Doctors go to school for 8 years and
then have 3 years of training.

7. Quiz
Where do doctors work?
Hospitals supermarkets Park
What do they wear?
Smock white coat scuba suit
Who helps them?
Nurses chefs children