The Solo Locum Tenens Pathologist Needs Your Help

A physician's guide to working as a locum tenens.

BACKGROUND The number of physicians working as a locum tenens is increasing. Although most physicians who provide locum tenens coverage are often older and semiretired, an increasing number of physicians are taking this route for limited periods early in their careers. METHODS The medical literature was searched through MEDLINE using the key words "career choice," "contract services," and "lo...

Use of locum tenens physicians in oncology practice.

Who would step in to care for your patients if you had to be away from work for several weeks? Calling in a locum tenens oncologist may be a good solution.

Notification of tuberculosis: can the pathologist help?

Locum tenens consultant doctors in a rural general hospital - an essential part of the medical workforce or an expensive stopgap?

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...

Discard the placenta at your peril, pathologist warns doctors.

Doctors who discard the placenta after a newly born infant dies or is permanently impaired – seemingly during the birth process – could potentially be throwing away their last chance of a legitimate defence should the angry and grieving parents decide to sue. Prof. Colleen Wright, an anatomical patho logist at the National Health Laboratory Services in Port Elizabeth, had specialists and GPs pa...