Depending on the regulations in your state, a medical assistant might draw blood or perform
other lab duties.
Many registered dental assistants also process dental x-rays, expose radiography, and perform
lab duties such as making teeth casts and temporary crowns.
Having no one to
share lab duties with, I was spending more time in making buffers, cutting brain sections, keeping records for the EPA, IACUC, etc. than reading, think, and designing the experiments to take the projects forward.
For instance, a dental assistant is given a task of keeping the records of a patient, sterilizing all the dental equipment, prepairing dental room, booking appointments for the patients, keeping dental records, performing
lab duties under a dentist's supervision, advising the patient on proper dental care among other responsibilities.
Performed
lab duties such as surfacing, generating, finishing and edging lenses.
Lab duties: urinalysis, pregnancy tests, hemoccults, and phlebotomy.