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Tricks of the trade: 7 tips to enhance your locums experience

Dr. RK Devlin shares her advice on what physicians can do to ensure a locum tenens assignment is a positive experience from start to finish.

Locum tenens horror stories (and how to avoid them)

Dr. Ripal Patel relates a few of his most terrifying locum tenens horror stores and gives his advice on how to avoid the same fate.

Locums and motherhood: Time for career and family

Jenny Underwood turned to locum tenens when she realized the right work/life balance would mean everything to her and her kids.

3 physician mothers manage family life and a medical career with locums

Locum tenens is the solution that these three physician mothers have turned to for help in managing both motherhood and their careers.

How to make locum tenens housing feel like home

Ripal H. Patel, MD, MPH, shares his tips on how to make your temporary locums housing into a home away from home. Locums has become my life: it is essentially all that I live, breathe, and do, and has allowed me to take firm control of my practice and deliver emergency care — on my […]

Living the Mediterranean life while working locums stateside

Being married to a Cyprian presented a unique opportunity at a very difficult time for Dr. Tina Passalaris. She was working in an academic institution in Seattle and was ready to make a move. At that same time, her husband’s father was terminally ill with cancer back in Cyprus, and with the long hours working […]

A mom, hospitalist, locums, and fashion blogger: The perfect balancing act

You could say medicine is in her blood. Dr. Neha Janakiriman’s grandfather was the only doctor in their village in India, and he ran a hospital where he took care of really sick patients. To express their gratitude, patients would offer him things like rice or eggs from the hens they raised. “I saw the […]

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