The Medical Scribe

Outpatient Scribe Job Description It is important to note Texas law allows young people at age 15 (except for special occasions on a judges orders) to work in the hospital setting as a volunteer with no more pay than $600 a year.  Other laws like a permit to drive at that age are also allowed through the USA court systems.  I started out as a candy striper in a Abilene Texas hospital's gift shop as a volunteer. As an outpatient scribe you will work one-on-one with physicians functioning as their personal assistant. The scribe’s role is to increase outpatient practice efficiency by lessening the physician’s burden of documentation and organizational responsibility. By directly assisting the physician with all non-clinical tasks the scribe allows for greater physician-patient care and increased physician efficiency. This job is exclusively clerical and does not allow for any physical patient contact or medical care; however, it is second-to-none for direct exposure to outpati

Dictionaries - Easton's Bible Dictionary - Scribes Scribes [T] [S] anciently held various important offices in the public affairs of the nation. The Hebrew word so rendered (sopher) is first used to designate the holder of some military office (Judg. 5:14 ; A.V., "pen of the writer;" RSV, "the marshal's staff;" marg., "the staff of the scribe"). The scribes acted as secretaries of state, whose business it was to prepare and issue decrees in the name of the king ( 2 Samuel 8:17 ; 20:25 ; 1 Chronicles 18:16 ; 24:6 ; 1 Kings 4:3 ; 2 Kings 12:9-11 ; 18:18-37 , etc.). They discharged various other important public duties as men of high authority and influence in the affairs of state. There was also a subordinate class of scribes, most of whom were Levites. They were engaged in various ways as writers. Such, for example, was Baruch, who "wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord" ( Jeremiah 36