Legislation Proposed to Assist Physician Shortage
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Legislation is being drafted, proposed and in the process of being passed at the state and national level to address America’s growing demand for physicians. As the baby boomer generation presents a double edged sword to medicine, creating more patients as well as more retiring physicians, congressional lawmakers are working on training as many new physicians as possible. The new proposed...
H1N1 Virus Highlights Need for Traveling Physicians
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN The number of people afflicted with the H1N1 virus is continuing to rise in America and around the world, with a more severe “rerun” outbreak predicted for next winter. Here are the current H1N1 flu numbers from the WHO (as of Friday 5/22): -6,552 cases and 9 deaths in the U.S. -11,000 cases and 86 deaths worldwide -H1N1 diagnosed in U.S. soldiers stationed in Kuwait -WHO “poised to...
Physician Needs: Rural, Inner City Areas
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Locum tenens has travel doctor assignments in general and specialty medicine across the country. Two types of locales hardest hit by the physician shortage are rural and inner city areas. The American Medical Association reports that at least 16,000 physicians are needed to help serve the more than 35 million people who live in rural, inner city and other areas needing physicians and travel physicians...
Escalating Physician Shortage: Locum Tenens
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Locum Job Source was developed in part as a direct response to the national shortage of physicians that is predicted to grow steadily over the next decade and possibly longer. Recently released statistics show that the U.S. will likely lack 212,000 physicians by 2014 because of an expanding patient population and replacements needed for retiring physicians*. This represents more than one quarter of the...