Also called: Organ Transplant Surgeon
Removes organs from donors and transplants kidneys, livers, and pancreases into patients who need them.
Gets a midnight call that a liver is available, flies to another hospital to recover it, races back, and performs a 6-hour transplant before dawn. Then cares for transplant patients for years.
Estimate; BLS top-codes physician wages.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 15 years after high school. Bachelor's, medical school, then general surgery residency plus a 2-year transplant fellowship.
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Chemistry, Pre-Medicine.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. Software improves organ matching and preservation; recovering and transplanting organs at all hours stays human surgical work.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Anatomy & physiology, AP Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1249.
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