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Job Description
- Medical assistants typically do the following:
- Interview patients and record their medical history.
- Measure patients vital signs, such as their blood pressure and weight.
- Help physicians with patient examinations.
- Give patients injections or medications as directed by physicians and as permitted by state law.
- Using computer applications.
- Answering telephones.
- Welcoming patients.
- Updating and filing patient medical records.
- Coding and filling out insurance forms.
- Scheduling appointments.
- Arranging for hospital admissions and laboratory services.
- Handling correspondence, billing, and bookkeeping.
