Medical Assistants Work In Variety Of Settings
February 20, 2009
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You don't have to be a doctor or nurse to put your healthcare skills to work helping others. Medical assistants and other professionals can also help make a difference for those in need.
This week, the Dothan Eagle profiled the Family Health Clinic, which provides services to the area's low and moderate income residents.
"We have income guidelines and people who come cannot have applied for disability. People who meet those qualifications and the others have increased big time," the clinic's medical assistant, Lesley Rabb, told the newspaper.
More than 100 people are said to seek treatment from the clinic each month, ranging from checkups to help with prescriptions.
Working in a healthcare clinic is one of a variety of career options for medical assistants. The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that in 2006, about 62 percent of all medical assistants worked in physicians' offices while 12 percent worked in hospitals and 11 percent worked for other specialists such as optometrists and podiatrists. The rest reportedly worked at facilities like Rabb does, including outpatient centers and residential care facilities.
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