Medical Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities:

The responsibilities of a medical assistant includes answering phone calls, greeting patients, updating and filling in patients’ medical records, filling out insurance forms, scheduling appointments, and handling billing. Meanwhile, clinical duties may include explaining treatments to patients, preparing patients for examination, doing basic laboratory tests amongst many more other things.

Salary:

$33,330 per year as of December 2016. A medical assistant is paid approximately 16 dollars an hour.

Education:

It is required that a medical assistant obtains a high school diploma, medical assistant certificate, 0-2 years of experience in a related field. Most employers prefer assistant with training or experience. However, in some states all you need is a high school diploma.

Demand or Need For Profession:

Throughout the years medical assistant job outlooks have been very promising. Employment in this field is projected to grow at least 34% as of 2018.

                

Reflection:

Since I was small I wanted to be a doctor because it looked so professional and high class.However, as i grew older and learned more about the body and roles of a doctor it started to gross me out. Which leads to this, i think becoming a medical assistant is a wonderful opportunity for me. It is not as horrid as doing operations but it is in the medical field. So yes I think i would like to be a medical assistant.

“ Take responsibility for YOUR OWN body, mind, and spirit, for your own physical, mental, and spiritual, well-being.”    Mr. C. S. Haymore

                 

As much as we think it is not our responsibility to take care of our mind, body, and spirit, we are the only ones that can prevent things from damaging us. If we let bad influences come between us, our spirit is not the only thing that would be affected. Once one of the three is not balanced everything falls apart. Yes, having a bad influence ruins your spiritual conscience, but it also ruins your body if you let bad influences pressure you to do harmful things to your body. No body in life is responsible for what happens to you but yourself. You make the decision of not eating but doing drugs instead,  you make the choice to cheat in a test. Little by little you are not only harming yourself but you are harming the people that love you and what to see you succeed in life. That is why if you want to benefit your body and mind you start of with doing good and taking care of yourself. We can not control what happens around us but we can control what is to become of us.