Medical Assistant is a good career option to earn good money and get job satisfaction. A medical assistant has various duties to perform which may include clerical, billing, administrative, technical and clinical assistance. They help the medical practitioners and other medical workers like nurses to work smoothly and help patients to get their bills, counseling and appointments. As a medical assistant gains experience the volume of medical assistant duties increases and they are promoted to do sophisticated jobs like assisting the physicians in operation theaters and other places. But a medical assistant is not assigned to make any decision about diseases, medications and take any emergency plans for patients.