Healthcare careers. . .very medical but not dealing with blood?

One of my good friends loves A&P and wants to pursure a career in medicine (neonatal surgeon) but cannot stand blood, fluid, but just not blood. Are there any suitable careers that are very into the medical field...not radiology or sitting at a comp in a hospital...but have no sights of blood.
Anything she can settle for instead of nursing?

A lot of people say they have a thing about blood and mess, but honestly, if you just confront your fears and just do it, you get used to it and you do your job. It does get easier the more you are exposed to it and the more focused you are on doing your work.

There are still some things that make me queasy on the job, but it isn't as though it happens every day (depending on the job).

Good luck to your friend, encourage her to not focus on her fears but instead focus on what she has a passion for, the rest she can get through.

A part of virtually all health care providers time is spent exposed to body fluids, including blood. Those positions which do not, are the positions which have no patient contact at all. There are definately no surgical specialties which do not involve human fluids.

Even in psychiatric settings you will have patients vomiting, possibly cutting themselves, and even spreading their own excrement on the walls and other surfaces.

You friend needs to reconsider working exclusively in laboratory research or if they feel the need to work in a health care field, consider something like pharmacy, where the patients are generally not in physical contact with the pharmacist.

Pretty much no. Even if you have a job that doesn't deal w/ blood you have to be prepared to participate in CODEs and blood can go flying in those situations. It's all mind over matter and I very unsimpathic when it comes to this....if she can't handle some blood, she won't be a very good health care-anything. Ultrasound is pretty blood free, but as I said she has to be prepared for CODEs if called on and I know from experience I've ruined more than one set of scrubs from blood splashes. Try social work I guess.

hmmmm i guess a pediatritan
or family doctor
no blood there and still excellent
dermatology rocks too!!!