"We have been mentored by most of our role models to use a single tool for handling our emotions in medicine, and that is to compartmentalize them—to put them in a box, and get the job done. No one bothered to mention … that there is no box big enough to practice medicine long term using just...
The combined system would focus on access and affordability, improving clinical care, growing its academic model and contributing to the region’s economy.
The use of locum tenens physicians in the U.S. has nearly doubled to 48,000 since 2002, according to a survey conducted by healthcare staffing company Staff Care.
Physicians may not be as eager to retire as the industry has been led to believe, according to a recent survey of more than 400 physicians age 50 and older.
