Attending Physiatrist Career

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A career that interests me is of an attending physiatrists a career I like to explore before my next (SEP) next year. As stated in the “My Next Move’’a site within the Occupational Information Network (O * Net), what an attending physiatrists does would be the following identify and attend disorders which demand physiotherapy to supply physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation. Attending Physiatrist have a wide variety in job location and patients for instance I could work at a hospital just with children or adults or at a clinic. Attending physiatrists have many duties for example, record evaluation of results, treatment plans, and patients’ results. To pursue this career I would need to have knowledge on biology and psychology. Indeed

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