Medieval Medicine | Hidden Cures for Modern Illnesses?
Just as researchers have been exploring underground caves and reservoirs to find what they call “hero bugs,” — uniquely isolated microbes — it may be essential to look for examples of how microbes were dealt with in earlier periods of medieval medicine to rediscover new ways of fighting infectious diseases. Modern Ailments and Medieval Medicine With 700,000 people dying annually from drug-resistant infections, the need for any and all...
Trust in Pediatric Doctors | Beating Digital Bias
Living in an age of instant information, people can have a tendency to become regular “know-it-alls” regardless of whether or not they’re qualified to act as such. Just start typing your question and Google will fill in the blanks — as if you were right all along! And yet when it comes to health and medicine, arguably one of the most human fields out there, people are starting to lose trust in pediatric doctors over the...
Addiction Treatment for Physicians
When your job is to take care of people all day long, sometimes it is easy to forget to take care of yourself. Working as a physician can be a high-stress job, and many health care professionals, including locum tenens, struggle with physician burnout. What do you do when you’re stressed out? Maybe you like to go for a run or read a book to distract you from the stress. Maybe your preference is to unwind with a cocktail. No harm in a...
Feel at Home on the Road | What Should You Bring?
If you’re on a locum tenens assignment and your agreement is to live in the housing provided, it can be hard to make it your own. It’s likely that the space you’ll be living in is very minimal, and it can even feel cold and unwelcoming at times. Luckily, there are small items that you can pack to make you feel at home on the road. So, before you head out on your next assignment, be sure to pack these items to make a home away from...
Online Physician Review Sites Promote Accountability
It seems like in this day and age we can review everything. From our Uber driver to our local eatery, rating systems and online review sites have become the primary way that we judge our products and services, so why should it be any different for physicians and other healthcare professionals? Well, a rise in online physician review sites has begun to change the dynamic between doctor and patient. In fact, Seventy-eight percent of...