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Medical Assistant Career Opportunities
Submitted By: Lee Broome According to the
US Department of Labor "Medical Assistants
is projected to be one of the fastest growing
occupations over the 2004-14 period."Medical
Assistants perform a wide variety of duties
in physicians offices depending on the size
of the medical office. In smaller solo or
two physician practices the duties of the
Medical Assistant may include some front
desk work. These front desk
responsibilities vary from signing in and
greeting patients to scheduling visits and
patient testing and admissions.However,
due to the high costs of physician liability
insurance, rent and salaries, mega-medical
practices are the norm today. These are
medical practices that have 15-25 physicians.
Generally in a practice like this duties
are broken down and are very delineated
between front office and back office. Duties
such as greeting the
patient, answering the phone, scheduling
appointments and dealing with insurance
would be the responsibility of secretaries
and insurance specialists trained in front
office duties.The Medical Assistant would
be responsible for back office duties exclusively.
These duties would include preparing the
patient for the exam, taking a patient history,
checking blood pressure and pulse, perhaps
performing an EKG. The Medical Assistant
would be responsible for drawing blood and
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