You Can Do This!

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If you’re just starting out in your studies of medical billing and coding or medical office assistant with the Allen School Online, you may be feeling like it is a challenge you cannot overcome.  Perhaps you decided to make a career change in mid-life and this new career path seems daunting.  Well, the following story […] Read More

The Science of “House”

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I imagine that as students of medical office assisting and medical billing and coding, Allen School Online students have an interest in all things medical.  Many of you are likely fans of the TV program “House”.  Just as this blogger-geek was a fan of Star Trek largely because of the seemingly accurate scientific underpinnings of […] Read More

We’ve Come A Long Way

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Every so often, I come across these posts revealing the state of modern medical science at points throughout history.  I like to share them with readers of the Allen School Online blog to remind us all how quickly medical technology is changing.  Heck, just the fact that you can be studying how to become a […] Read More

Medical Office Attire Around the World

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Not entirely relevant to the topic of medical billing and coding or medical assistant training, however, I thought it was pretty interesting to see the different sartorial practices of medical office professionals in different countries around the world.  This article in one of my very most favorite geeky blogsites, www.boingboing.net published this image of a […] Read More

Single parents back in school for a Healthcare career

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Many parents are in this situation. Returning to school can enable you to achieve a better life for you and your children. It is wonderful to know that upon attending school you can be able to start working and stop stressing financially.  However, like all single parents, you have to ask yourself, are you ready […] Read More

Dept. of Labor Confirms Strong Job Growth in Medical

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The US Dept of Labor job growth statistics outlining the predicts that 3.2 million health care positions will be created from 2008 to 2018!  That’s some fantastic news if you’re already enrolled at Allen School Online to study Medical Billing and Coding or Medical Office Assistant.  Both these positions are in the top 5 degrees […] Read More

How to Become Indispensable in your New Medical Office Job

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So you’ve gotten your medical billing and coding or medical office certificate from Allen School Online.  You’ve landed an exciting new position in the offices of a local physician or hospital.  Want to know the secrets of how to be the one person in the office they’d never even think of letting go?  Business Insider […] Read More

Free Stuff

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As students of medical billing and coding, you’re in the company of students everywhere who are frequently, as the old cliche goes “starving”.   Having been a starving student myself once, working on studies without enough time to work for more money, I would have been thrilled to find a place where they were  giving […] Read More

Don’t Say That!

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One of the most popular posts ever on the Allen School Online blog was entitled 10 Common Reasons People Get Fired!  You can read it here. No other post has generated anywhere close to the number of reader comments.  Probably because everyone knows a co-worker who does some of these “termination worthy” things (like failing […] Read More

Early Spring? Early (Allergy) Suffering

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If you live in the Northeastern United States (as many Allen School and AS Online students do), you know we’ve been treated to a very early Spring.  After an exceptionally mild and mostly blizzard-free Winter, the temperatures have been in the mid-60s to 70s for the last 10 days or so.  The forecast is for […] Read More