Q&A: How do hospitals feel about locum tenens?

Val Jones, MD, recently spoke with hospital executives (some of whom were physicians) about the overall process of hiring and managing temporary physicians. “What I heard wasn’t pretty,” Jones wrote on the KevinMD website. “I thought I’d summarize their opinions in the form of a mock composite interview to protect their anonymity—I’m hoping that locum MDs and agencies alike can learn from this very candid discussion.”