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Medical Assistant may be defined as a health care professional
with multiple aptitudes. While doctors and physician assistants
handle purely medical tasks, medical assistants take care of
the administrative duties along with medical tasks that do not
need high medical proficiency.
Medical Assisting and the duties it entails Medical assistants
perform administrative, laboratory and clinical tasks in various
health care facilities. Administrative duties include internal
and external communication, correspondence, patient welfare,
maintenance of patient records, insurance forms, scheduling
appointments, arranging for hospital admission and laboratory
services and handling billing and bookkeeping.
Clinical duties of a medical assistant briefly include recording
vital signs, preparing patients for examination, explaining
treatment procedures to patients, and assisting the physician
during the examination. Clinical duties also require a reasonable
level of manual dexterity and visual acuity. Laboratory tasks
include collection and preparation of laboratory specimens,
performing basic laboratory tests on the premises, disposal
of contaminated supplies, and sterilization of medical instruments.
Medical assistants may also assist physicians in instructing
patients about medications and special diets, preparation and
administration of medications, maintain medical and drug supplies,
draw blood, prepare patients for x rays, take electrocardiograms,
remove sutures and change dressings. Dealing with patients and
public is an important part of a medical assistant's profile.
Hence, grooming, courtesy and an ability to put patients at
ease are essential. Also, they must respect the confidential
nature of medical information. The nature of medical assisting
and the duties involved differ from one health care facility
to another according to the location, size of the practice and
the practitioner's specialization.
Medical assistants working directly under an office manager,
physician, or other health practitioners for small medical outfits
may undertake both administrative and clinical duties. In larger
practices, medical assistants working under department administrators
tend to specialize only in specific areas. |
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