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Medical assistants perform administrative and clinical duties according to the physicians’ direction. Most medical assistant duties that are very significant to doctors are recording patients’ medical history and current vital statistics, keeping test results from these medical records, preparing and assisting patients to examinations, keeping the examination room clean and organized, advising patients with proper drugs to take, providing prescriptions, sterilizing instruments and disposing contaminated supplies, administering medication, explaining treatment procedures, discussing proper medication and diet, clearing out to patients the physicians’ instructions, examining patients, and sometimes giving injections. All these duties are very vital to every operation conducted inside the hospital that involves all these.