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What is a Medical
Assistant? by Ravi What is a Medical Assistant? Medical Assistants
are unlicensed healthcare workers who perform administrative
and basic supervised clinical tasks to keep the offices of physicians,
podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners running
smoothly.
Many also work in outpatient clinics, hospitals and healthcare
centers. Medical Assistant careers are gathering demand in the
background of a healthcare industry boom worldwide. Doctors'
offices are extremely busy places. There are almost constantly
patients to see or consult with on the telephone, medical records
and insurance records to update, tests to run, appointments
to schedule, billing and bookkeeping responsibilities to handle,
and many other duties and needs. Doctors may hardly have time
to see all of their patients,
let alone handle the rest of these tasks. This is where medical
assistants step in. Medical assistants are basically the doctor's
right hand. They keep the office running smoothly, taking care
of any clerical and some clinical aspects so that the doctors
can focus on providing direct patient care. Many doctors have
large practices, especially those in populous rural areas
where there are fewer doctors per person, and if all responsibilities
are left to the doctor, the quality of the patient care can
suffer. There is never a typical workday as far as medical assisting
is concerned because it is a very busy and varying occupation.
They may focus on reception, records, and billing one day and
perform simple lab tests and change dressings and sutures the
next. They may even be needed to assist doctors in procedures
or by taking x-rays or administering electrocardiograms. Click
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