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A medical assistant's role often involves significant patient contact, such as measuring vital signs, handling instruments,
collecting bodily fluids and
tissues for lab work.
Vital tasks they commonly perform on a day - to - day basis include processing incoming patients, taking patient histories, measuring vital signs, administering medications and injections,
collecting and preparing
bodily fluids and
tissues specimens, answering phones, and processing computer data and paperwork.
[1][2] They perform routine tasks and procedures such as measuring patients» vital signs, administering medications and injections, recording information in medical record keeping systems, preparing and handling medical instruments and supplies, and
collecting and preparing specimens of
bodily fluids and
tissues for laboratory testing.