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Tips for Getting a Medical Assistant Job

Tips for Getting a Medical Assistant Job

With more than half a million medical assistants on the job, medical assisting is one of the fastest growing professions in the United States. Given the high demand, you’d think MA jobs are falling out of trees, but chances are you will have to go searching, and here are some strategies for finding them, based […]

Doctor Allegedly Kills Patients to Free Up Hospital Beds

Virginia Helena Soares de Souza

The next time you complain about your doctor, thank your lucky stars that at least you’re not a patient of Virginia Helena Soares de Souza, a 56-year-old physician in Curitiba, Brazil who is accused of killing at least seven terminally ill people in order to free up beds in her hospital. Even scarier is the […]

The Big List of Medical Assistant Specialists

Medical Assisting Specialties: Clinical

Medical assistants’ duties are as varied as the medical professionals they support. Some MAs’ responsibilities may be mostly clinical in nature, while others may be more administrative/clerical, but typically there’s a mix of the two. Before entering some fields, medical assistants may have the option of taking classes to earn certificates in their specialties, thus proving […]

Man Live-Tweets Hospital Visit for Vibrator Extraction

Man Live-Tweets Hospital Visit for Vibrator Extraction

In this all-access information age, some people don’t seem to realize that there are some things better left un-shared. Case in point: Twitter user @Grawly, who recently found himself in the prickly position of not being able to retrieve a vibrating dildo he’d inserted into his rectum. Most people would be hesitant to admit this […]