I see medical issues and I understand the importance of the patient’s well-being. I have been a medical assistant for almost 5 years now and I have been helping my patients with their medical needs for that time period. I am a member of the Ambler Medical Associates group. For those of you who don’t know me, you can find me on Facebook or Twitter @AmblerMS.
I am an Ambler Medical Associates member, or a member of the Ambler Medical Associates group, which is a group of medical assistants who are dedicated to helping sick people. I have been a medical assistant since 2012 and I currently work at the Ambler Health Care Center on West Broad Street in Indianapolis. I have a bachelors degree in health sciences, my medical degree was in anesthesiology and my postgraduate degree is in biomedical science.
That’s right! We’re a medical assistant group! Like all medical assistants, my job for the past 4 years has been to help people get better. Whether it is getting them to the doctor or giving them the proper medications to cure them, I am dedicated to helping people. It is my job to help with the recovery, as well as the pain killers and other drugs.
As a former student of law school, I was asked to help with the recovery of my mother, her husband and father, who was paralyzed from the neck down. This was a really hard decision for me, and even though I am not a big person, I still have the courage to ask for help.
I think this is part of my job description. I am a medical assistant, but also a nurse’s aid. I have taken care of hundreds of people since I graduated medical school in 2000. I have a great deal of compassion for people who are sick and injured, but especially those who are unable to help themselves. I am a strong advocate for them, and I do my utmost to help them.
I am not the only one asking this question, but it seems as if a lot of people are having trouble accepting the fact that these medical assistants are allowed to administer medical care without any training whatsoever. To their credit, the National Association of Medical Assistants is finally doing something about the medical assistant staffing issue. The organization has recently adopted an open-letter to all members, asking them to write to the president of the association and express their concerns to the CEO about the current staffing issues.
The doctors’ letter is signed by a number of associations such as the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. They argue that the medical assistants have been filling in “doctors’ jobs” for too long. Even though the doctor/assistant model has been around longer than the medical assistant, it has been blamed for the rise of incompetent and unqualified doctors.
This is a common complaint from medical assistants, and some medical assistants get defensive when they see some medical assistant who is not qualified. You can be certain that they are not even being qualified. At the time of writing this article, the medical assistants have asked the CEO of the American Dental Association to address this complaint. The CEO replied that if they don’t have a qualified medical assistant, doctors’ jobs will have been filled by patients who have been treated at local hospitals and clinics.
I think this is a little unfair. I really do. Many of my friends have taken the same route and I was one of them. However, that does not make me a medical assistant. I have no medical degree and am not qualified to be a medical assistant. In fact, by the letter of the law I am not even qualified to be a doctor.
In the end, we wound up with a medical assistant who is a nurse and a pharmacy technician.
