You’ve worked many, many years to complete decades of schooling. You are finally a full-fledged physician. You are probably wondering what to do now and you may need to make that decision quickly so that you can pay back your student loans without too much interest accruing. Many may think that this is the time [...]
While it is doubtful that technology will ever replace a physician, some hospitals are supplementing their staff with a new software technology developed by Mary Jo Gorman, a St. Louis physician. The software, called Advanced ICU Care, can remotely diagnose and monitor patients across the country in an ICU setting. Insurance companies are attempting to [...]
Webster’s Dictionary defines business as a partnership engaged in commerce, or a place of work. While perhaps traditional businesses don’t impact lives as profoundly as a hospital, by definition, a hospital is a business. When someone with a vested interest in the financial well-being of the business looks at financials, they surely will have operating costs, profit and return [...]
The success of the hospitalist model for primary care can be applied to many specialties that have been experiencing similar problems, including increased concerns about workforce, quality of life, and quality of care issues. Each year, 670 orthopaedic residents enter the workforce, but this number is offset by the number of practicing orthopaedists who retire, resulting in [...]
With major changes coming to the health care industry, many physicians are considering leaving their practices to work as a hospital employees, locum tenens physicians or simply retiring. The slowly improving economy is fueling this trend. According to the Physician Retention Survey conducted by the American Medical Group Assn. and Cejka Search the physician departure rate at large [...]
Like many physicians, Dr. Katie Noorbaksh decided to begin medical school immediately following completion of her undergraduate studies. She declared that she would graduate medical school, join a private practice, would not have children until after residency and would never go into emergency medicine (among other declarations). This career model was standard 10 years ago [...]
Medical professionals, including physician assistants, are often drawn to medicine by its excitement, the diversity of experience, the decent paycheck (lest we forget), the provision of practical help and perhaps its status as one of the more recession-proof career choices. For practical confirmation of that, do a web search for PA job openings. If the [...]
Traveling and taking on new adventures has always been seen as great way to broaden one’s horizons and that is why you have chosen the life of a Locum Tenens health professional. Assuming you know where you are going to be located, what are you going to do next? Prepare! The last thing you need [...]
Today, our healthcare system is in state of definite change. The Obama Administration has opened the door to millions of newly insured residents with its healthcare reforms; Obamacare. These individuals are seeing a brighter future with the ability to receive healthcare, which in the past, may have seem like a mere fairy tale. Both patients [...]
Janice Boughton, MD, decided to leave her practice due to losing a couple of partners and wanting to re-evaluate her career. She decided to work as a locum tenens physician “to travel and interact with places and people in a meaningful way, have adventures, roll up my sleeves, get my feet wet…”. To date, she [...]
