How do locum tenens help healthcare practices and clinics?

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Medical practices and clinics hire locum tenens when a position in the practice is not permanently filled but help in needed. The clinic may be unable to fill a position permanently or not able to do so for budget reasons. Or, perhaps a clinic does not want to risk getting hiring someone full-time without getting to know him or her well through a temporary work setting. Circumstances arise that make locum tenens a wonderful solution for medical practices: doctors do get sick and may need weeks to recover or maybe an educational or research opportunity arises that will take a physician away from his or her practice for several months. In either case, a locum tenens can fill in the gap and keep the practice from being overwhelmed with the patient load. One pediatrician has yet be able to do so, but would love to hire a locum tenens during flu season because his patient load jumps from around thirty children a day to over sixty children!



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