Healthcare consultants provide advice to hospitals and other healthcare related businesses like pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies. Typically the advice that you give as a consultant is related to human resources, technology, finance, or other business development and administrative responsibilities. You do not work with patients. Instead, you work with hospital staff to help hospitals operate appropriately and within their means. Some healthcare consultants work in private firms where everyone is a healthcare consultant, but you can also find work in the healthcare consulting division of a more general company.