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Different types of doctor use math in different ways. Some use it to calculate medication doses. Some doctors do research and need it for statistics. Other doctors look at amounts radiation patients get and that requires math too.

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Doctors use math to measure the dose of medication to give you

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Everyday they use math. They have to know a patients weight, dosage for medicine, billing information, insurance information, and any number of things.

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