Do you love watching Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, or ER (regardless of whether George Clooney is acting or not)?
Do you find satisfaction from the precision required to pull a splinter out of a friend’s toe, enjoy cleaning and bandaging a roommate’s cut finger?
Does the thought of medical school sound like financial (and social) suicide?
Then perhaps you should look into a medical assisting job!
WHAT IS MEDICAL ASSISTING?
Medical assistants perform a range of administrative and clinical tasks in offices of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners. Unlike Physician assistants (who can examine, diagnose, and treat patients with physician supervision), medical assistant duties vary from office to office.
One of the biggest decisions students face in medical school is deciding which area of medicine they want to specialize in, if any. Some people know from the beginning, like Christina from Grey’s Anatomy.
There are many different factors to consider. How much do you want to work? Do you want to have a family? Do you want to have patient contact frequently? Do you want to work on solving common maladies and sending people out in the world healthy or do you want to work on complex medical mysteries?