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  2. Medical Assistants: What do they do? - WebMD

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    Medical assistant administrative duties. These may include: Greeting patients. Answering phones and scheduling appointments. Filing and updating medical records. Coding and completing insurance ...

  3. What Is a Physician? What Do They Do and When to See One - WebMD

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    Physicians work to maintain, promote, and restore health by studying, diagnosing, and treating injuries and diseases. Physicians generally have six core skills: Patient care. Physicians have to ...

  4. Medical director - Wikipedia

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    A medical director is a physician who provides guidance and leadership on the use of medicine in a healthcare organization. These include the emergency medical services, hospital departments, blood banks, clinical teaching services, and others. A medical director devises the protocols and guidelines for the clinical staff and evaluates them ...

  5. Paramedics: What They Do and Where They Work - WebMD

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    Paramedics also make some decisions about patient care and supervise the other members of their team who have less training, like EMTs. On calls, paramedics may: Do CPR. Use a defibrillator. Give ...

  6. Allied health professions - Wikipedia

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    Allied Health Professions are a distinct group of health professionals who apply their expertise to prevent disease transmission, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate people of all ages and all specialties. Together with a range of technical and support staff they may deliver direct patient care, rehabilitation, treatment, diagnostics and health ...

  7. Health professional - Wikipedia

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    Health professional. A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) [1] is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. The field includes those who work as a nurse, physician (such as family physician, internist, obstetrician, psychiatrist, radiologist ...

  8. Healthcare technician - Wikipedia

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    A healthcare technician is a health professional that provides care to patients. [1] Healthcare technician's primary position is to assist medical staff complete tasks around their assigned unit or clinic's and accommodate patient needs. Healthcare technicians are typically found in specialty clinics, intensive care, emergency departments, or ...

  9. What Is a Physiotherapist? - WebMD

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    A physiotherapist works with patients to develop customized programs designed to restore as much as possible their functional ability and movement. They are trained to help patients at all stages ...