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A really bad locum.
Dr. Smith is getting close to retirement. I can tell this without ever having met him. I don’t remember seeing him when I worked in this clinic before; maybe he was away then, too, and had some other locum filling in. One of the patients mentions that Dr. Smith will be retiring soon, but I would have guessed it from the fact that so many of his patients are old. All of those in hospital are ove...
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How about that? Otherwise, locum is short for locum tenens (Latin) meaning “a place holder”—a person who temporarily fulfils the duties of another.1 Working as a locum is increasingly common both nationally and internationally.2 For the past 2 years, I have been working as a full-time locum, mainly in northern Ontario, and I have held hospital privileges in 8 different communities. My locum exp...
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INTRODUCTION Maintaining hospital consultant staffing levels often requires the employment of locum tenens to meet service needs. This is particularly so in hospitals where core clinical services are run by a small number of permanently appointed consultants. The problems associated with locum employment are underestimated and little attention has been directed towards addressing the issue in t...
متن کاملGeneral Practice Locum Improvement Tool
An improvement culture is required in the NHS. Staff members who move from one place of work to another are often best placed to see alternative methods of working that at times are more efficient - locum general practitioners (GPs) tend to be in this category. A tool was developed specifically to obtain quality improvement suggestions to the general practice from the locum GP and vice versa in...
متن کاملTraining intensity and consultant support: the Canadian experience.
particularly at the level of the hyoid bone, but no fractures were seen. On completion of the orthopaedic procedure, direct laryngoscopy was performed showing complete regression of the oedema and the patient’s trachea was extubated. During postoperative interview the patient agreed to have felt somewhat hoarse on the evening following the traffic accident. Seatbelts save lives and are effectiv...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.17.3.178