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2/2 She rather be on her phone and take personal phone calls that she has with her boyfriend and attorneys, a lot of people, including providers, have mentioned that they do not like working with this other MA, but she is still kept at the clinic because they are afraid of being shortstaffed and not being able to Fill her position within time. She does not know how to take criticism does not know how to communicate gets very defensive and I feel like she truly does not care about patient care. She does not chart triage calls prep chart correctly. Take vitals correctly do procedures correctly relays the wrong info from provider to patient and patient to provider. I can admit that we probably made this person‘s work environment pretty hostile because of the things that we would do as in whispering Bad talking her and constantly turning her in for all her mistakes, but overall this girl was just a hot mess. became pretty close friends with the receptionist in the clinic and she would tell me s

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