If you have pain when you urinate or a change in urine odor or color, call your health care provider. These could be signs of a bladder infection. Some pregnant women also leak urine when they cough or sneeze. For most women, this goes away after the baby is born.
The lowest paid medical assistants only earn about $20,000 per year for 40 hours work. The best-paid assistants can make almost $40,000. For the most part, median earnings run from $25,000 to $30,000 per year.
Bureau of Labor Statistics information for the 2010 median pay for Medical Assistants was reported to be $28,860 a year which comes out to around $13.87 an hour. The total number of medical assistant jobs reported by the BLS in 2010 was about 527,600 with an expected growth rate of around 37% which is quite large.