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Best Careers 2008

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Ahead-of-the-Curve Careers



Cutting-edge careers are often exciting, and they offer a strong job market. Alas, the cutting edge too often turns out to be the bleeding edge, so here are some careers that, while relatively new, are already viable and promise further growth. They emerge from six megatrends:



Growing healthcare demand. The already overtaxed U.S. healthcare system will be forced to take on more patients because of the many aging baby boomers, the influx of immigrants, and the millions of now uninsured Americans who would be covered under a national healthcare plan likely to be enacted in the next president's administration. Jobs should become more available in nearly all specialties, from nursing to coding, imaging to hospice. These healthcare careers are likely to be particularly rewarding. Health informatics specialists will, for example, develop expert systems to help doctors and nurses make evidence-based diagnoses and treatments. Hospitals, insurers, and patient families will hire patient advocates to navigate the labyrinthine and ever more parsimonious healthcare system. On the preventive side, people will move beyond personal trainers to wellness coaches, realizing that doing another 100 pushups won't help if they're smoking, boozing, and enduring more stress than a rat in an experiment.
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Just as long as the growth for nursing jobs extends this way. It seems that they're phasing out LPNs completely and I'm so frustrated. It would be great to have a greated emphasis on preventative medicine than what is currently offered. I used to work in medical billing and I remember my supervisor chewed out one managed care rep who denied a patient's mammo as "not medically necessary, this plan doesn't cover preventative services." My sup, who was undergoing chemo for breast cancer at the time, was appalled that they wouldn't pay the $47.00 reading fee but would pay the thousands of dollars if the patient wound up getting chemo and radiation for not detecting the lump earlier. Sadly enough, the managed care rep still wouldn't reprocess it and the patient had to pay.

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