Medical Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Medical assistants perform many administrative duties, including answering telephones, greeting patients, updating and filing patients' medical records, filling out insurance forms, handling correspondence,scheduling appointments, arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services, and handling billing

Salary: $13.30 per hour

Education: The minimum education for a medical assistant is a high school diploma. However, some states require training or examinations for those who do clinical work, and some employers prefer assistants with training or certification.

Reflection: I would not like to be a medical assistant. They don’t earn a lot of money and this is just not the field I want to work in.