Prompt #1

The day in the life of a medical researcher is very structured in regards to a typical day pattern, however information given and recieved in one day can seem very overwhelming and fast paced. On a typical day, a medical researcher gets to work at around 8:00 and immediately checks e-mails, phone messages, and mail to see if anything very important has occured. Assuming nothing "crazy" has happened over night, he or she usually has a series of meetings with other medical researchers working on a similar project, or have meetings with some type of committee (possibly a committee on cancer research or other health issues). After any meetings are done, he or she will most likely will continue or start a medical research project, however chances are he or she is in the middle of a project that might have already been going on for 5 years or so (a lot of big time projects can take up to as long as 15 years to finish). During the course of a project, extensive note taking, examing, testing, and comparing results with other people is occuring. Almost everyday, new imformation is usually recieved and must be checked every few hours due the fact new information might potentially effect the outcome of a study or experiement. Note, by this point he or she probebly got some lunch! Most medical researshers work for private companies or for a university. If the researcher works for a university there is a good chance that at least a few days a week he or she must lecture or work with graduate students on other projects and give advise. Most medical researchers end there day between 5 and 8 PM, depending on the work they had that day. If the days work consisted of a big time experient or study, he or she may have spent up to 8 hours just collecting data and sharing it with others in meetings. While the work day may end at 5 or 8, there is always a chance of being on call for an emergency or checking e-mail throughout the evening. It is a long day in the life of a medical researcher.