Tamika Wong has been working at Blue Ridge Orthopaedic for 4 years. As a Medical Assistant, she helps our practice maintain a high standard of patient care with her determination and dependability. Scroll down for the complete Q&A with Tamika.

Q: How long have you been working at Blue Ridge Orthopaedic?

A: 4 years

Q: What is your job title?

A: Medical Assistant

Q: What does your job entail?

A: Assisting surgeons on daily basis with in office and/or post operative care of their patients

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: My co-workers

Q: What is the best career lesson you’ve learned so far?

A: More in-depth understanding about the skeletal system (bones) and how to assist with starting IVs

Q: What would you do (for a career) if you weren’t doing this?

A: Working in the emergency department as an RN

Q: What profession would you definitely NOT like to do?

A: Administration (paperwork)

Q: What county do you live in?

A: Culpeper

Q: What do you like best about your county?

A: Neighborly feeling, everyone knows their neighbor

Q: What is your favorite local business?

A: Knakal's

Q: What do you like to do when you aren’t working?

A: Being a mother of three girls and school (need a life LOL)

Q: What’s a fun fact about you many people may not know?

A: My lashes are fake LOL

Q: Where’s your favorite place in the world?

A: At home in my bed binge watching TV

Q: What is your motto or personal mantra?

A: I usually tell myself each morning before I walk out the house 'YOU GOT THIS'

Q: If you could meet anyone in the world, dead or alive, who would it be and why?

A: Bill Gates, so he can teach me how he turned lemons into a multi-billion dollar lemonade stand

Q: Three words to best describe you:

A: Determined, Ambitious, Horse (lol work-horse as my boss so graciously calls it)

Q: What is the one thing you can’t live without?

A: Food

Q: What is the most recent TV show you binge watched?

A: SWAT sooo good!

Q: What is the best movie of all time?

A: Love and Basketball

Q: If you could have any superpower what would it be?

A: Stop time

Q: What is one food that you cannot resist?

A: Spaghetti w/garlic bread

Q: If you could snap your fingers and become an expert in something, what would it be?

A: Money management

Q: What’s the best advice you were ever given?

A: Put into it, what you want out of it

Q: Are you a dog person or a cat person (or neither)?

A: Before working at Blue Ridge surrounded with dog lovers-neither, but now I think I love dogs-well puppies :)