Locums Life

Becoming a Medical Missionary Through Locum Tenens Work

How to save children by day and be a sci-fi author at night. What does writing sci-fi books have in common with serving as a medical missionary? If you’re Dr. Walter Boutwell, a neonatologist from Montgomery, Alabama, locum tenens is the secret behind his ability to do both. Inspired by his grandparents who were medical …

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Looking Beyond the Mask as a Physician and Artist

Photo from: Ruth Fremson, The New York Times. Dr. Peter Bulow shapes both heads and minds within them. That’s because he’s an accomplished sculptor, drawing inspiration for his busts from people he meets on the New York subway. And he’s also a psychiatrist, who has conducted research on depression and has helped many patients through …

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Locum Tenens benefits

Benefits of Locum Tenens

The journey of locum tenens Psychiatrist, Dr. Fred Moss. How it began. It was 2013 and I was assigned to word a locum tenens psychiatry position at an inpatient geriatric unit outside of Cleveland, Ohio. I was incredibly disheartened by what I witnessed when I arrived; patients were heavily medicated and lethargic. Overwhelmed by what …

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Next Travel Assignment

Choosing Your Next Locum Tenens Assignment Destination

Choosing where to go next on your locums journey. Adventure junkies. Head to the Pacific Northwest. If scaling the side of mountains or rafting down white water rapids sound like good downtime for you while on assignment, here’s where you belong. Take a hike through the lush Mount Hood National Forest or visit Washington’s famed …

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