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Locum Tenens
"Locum Tenens" means "holding a place" in Latin and is commonly used in the medical professions to refer to a doctor who fills in for another physician while he/she is away on vacation or ill, or, sometimes, not even there. I.e. if a position is left vacant and can't be filled with a permanent physician someone may choose to work a few weeks there at a time. This is very similar to 'temping.'
I have just returned form ten days in S.D. on an IHS hospital site. (There are several, so I'll leave it at that as I'm fairly sure the federal government doesn't want to be associated with this blog. There are several clinics and hospitals on the 'rez.') It was an eye-opening experience and just what I wanted, a chance to stretch my skills, see another way of livng and another part of the country. Though born in Iowa and loving the priaires, I'd never looked at them quite like this.
They stressed me sometime, babies threatening to pop out before I got them to the labor and delivery suite, not cardiologist for three hours by ground, no orthopedist (except me!), a general surgeon only available M-F from 0800 to 1700, but they did have a lot of things -- nurse-midwives, and OB doc, lots of family practice people, a CT scanner (that worked about half the time...) and some really outstanding nurses in the ED. lots of very good people, too. And the patients REALLY were more stoic than the screamers we seem to have in N. Georgia.
I have just returned form ten days in S.D. on an IHS hospital site. (There are several, so I'll leave it at that as I'm fairly sure the federal government doesn't want to be associated with this blog. There are several clinics and hospitals on the 'rez.') It was an eye-opening experience and just what I wanted, a chance to stretch my skills, see another way of livng and another part of the country. Though born in Iowa and loving the priaires, I'd never looked at them quite like this.
They stressed me sometime, babies threatening to pop out before I got them to the labor and delivery suite, not cardiologist for three hours by ground, no orthopedist (except me!), a general surgeon only available M-F from 0800 to 1700, but they did have a lot of things -- nurse-midwives, and OB doc, lots of family practice people, a CT scanner (that worked about half the time...) and some really outstanding nurses in the ED. lots of very good people, too. And the patients REALLY were more stoic than the screamers we seem to have in N. Georgia.
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