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Health Science Majors With Great Salary – Radiology Therapy?

What majors are there in the health science field that have a very good salary and require a masters degree at the most? I’m interested in radiology therapy and it only requires a bachelors degree. Any advice on radiology therapy and any other health science majors? I’m going to be taking biology, chem, and physics classes anyway so I might as well be making a lot of cash.

Posted on February 24, 2010 at 3:41 pm by radiology · Permalink
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  1. Written by blazinda
    on February 24, 2010 at 3:41 pm
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    You mean radiation therapy? It only requires a certificate or an associates degree but usually the certificate are for people who are in the health field already as an x ray tech in the United States. Other countries, it requires a BA. With a BA, you can teach or do management or sales. My advice for you, it seems that you only want to do this for money so if I was the director of the program I wouldn’t want you or the fact I would hire if I was the Chief therapist because of your attitude right now. Do you even know what you are dealing with? If I were you, I would volunteer and shadow what is a therapist’s day is like when you have to treat cancer patients with even terminal cancer. It’s not easy and you should show empathy. This is one field where I seriously recommend only for people who really want to help people like a true nurse. People die in the hospital due to bad patient care and that might just because of nurses don’t give a flying f@ck honestly and I’ve seen it. However, you are dealing with patients who need you right now for comfort and the competence to help them through this crisis and not be a money monger. Maybe you are a good person but it seems your maturity right now is just money, then this is not the field for you and if you do get it, I do feel bad for those cancer patients especially they know they accepted the fact that they are going to die. Besides if I told you there are no jobs in radiation therapy or barely any, are you going to stay anyway to pursue it because what I am saying is true. BLS might say differently but if you ask other techs like myself, they’ll say the same thing as me and most likely if your maturity do change and you graduate from the program, you might hve to move to find a job. Yes, it does pay well but it has a price and it can burn you out because it is depressing to see people die and you have been with them and talk to them for 30 days straight for their treatment or worse to realize next week you are no longer tx them because they passed away. Yeah, it is one of the highest paying modalities out there but there’s a reason why, it’s even harder than nursing in my opinion you know what you are treating them with. Yeah you can advance and become a chief or a dosimetrist. There’s other fields though more compatible to your personality and money hunger like physical therapy, nursing, occupational therapy and so on. By the way, there’s no jobs in the radiology field or just hard to find. thats my two cents take it or leave it.