Medical Assistant ECPI University Rachana Chea Abstract Medical Assistant industry is will be growing 31% through 2020. The Medical Assistants are important because they assist the physicians in either clinical or administrative tasks. Most Medical Assistants can be found in the hospital or clinic. Medical Assistant usually has advanced training‚ although it is not required for entry level positions. This certification or advanced training includes Certified Medical Assistants (CMA)‚ Registered
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In John Hoberman’s Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism‚ the author discusses the predisposed racial thinking in the medical profession and how it affects the medical treatment received by African Americans. Hoberman uses such a text to discuss the historical‚ as well as ongoing‚ practice of racism in the medical profession through the 21st century. Hoberman uses the text to explain how racism is instilled in physicians’ thinking about the minds and bodies of their African
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Promotion of Health Tourism in India The global growth in the flow of patients and health professionals as well as medical technology‚ capital funding and regulatory regimes across national borders has given rise to new patterns of consumption and production of healthcare services over recent decades. The free movement of goods and services under the auspices of the World Trade Organization and its General Agreement on Trade in Services has accelerated the liberalization of the trade in health
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Medical tourism Indian Medical Travel: A Priority Sector The Indian economy’s steady growth rate is also being reflected in the Indian healthcare and medical travel industry. Healthcare and medical health travel are priority areas for India‚ and the government has increased its budgetary outlay for medical travel and foreign investment. Customs duties on the import of medical equipment have been slashed‚ and special incentives are being offered for future private healthcare facilities. Government
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rely on health care professionals and institutions for their safety and well-being (“Quality and patient‚” 2009). According to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2000)‚ “medical errors are responsible for injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients; an estimated 48‚000-98‚000 patients die from medical errors each year. Errors in health care have been estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital‚ and preventable health care-related errors cost the
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Medical assistants complete administrative and clinical tasks in the offices of physicians‚ podiatrists‚ chiropractors‚ and other health practitioners. Their duties vary with the location‚ specialty‚ and size of the practice. There is so many reasons why I want to become a Medical Assistant. It is definitely not a career for everyone. It requires flexibility‚ a desire to help other people‚ and a passion for learning. Medical Assistant is career choice with so much potential. As a medical assistant
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Medical Assistant Medical assistants are health care providers who perform clinical and administrative tasks to help doctors and other health care representatives. The role of the medical assistants varies depending upon the location of work‚ specialty of the practitioner and size of the hospital or clinic. However‚ The satisfaction and health of a patient should be the number one priority of any medical assistant. It is a simple concept‚ but on the same note complex. Each patient may have different
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Tin 1 Allison Tin Professor T Composition 1 17 April 2014 Medical Marijuana: Using It Vs Abusing it Recently‚ the effects of medical marijuana have been noted to be helpful in an abundance of ways to people with different terrible situations. For example‚ Charlotte Figi is a girl with very serious epilepsy. Weekly enduring hundreds of seizures made life truly miserable and torturous for Charlotte. She continued the severe seizures consistently despite the anti-seizure prescription drugs
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Wikipedia Article for Medical Home * The medical home or patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a team based health care delivery model that is led by a physician‚ P.A.‚ or N.P. that provides continuous and comprehensive medical care to obtain better health outcomes. * Its goal is to increase satisfaction with care‚ allow better access to health care‚ and improve health. * Care coordination is an important component to the PCMH‚ which requires: health information technology‚ and staff
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on a local‚ national and global level‚ play an intricate role in the health of all individuals. As Smith-Nonini said‚ “a medical anthropology approach to analysis helps bring the critical role of political and economic factors‚ as well as the medical and public health cultures that shape programs‚ into view” (Smith-Nonini 2009:613). The political economy approach to medical anthropology specifically targets the macro-level decisions and factors that effect health. This provides a new perspective
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