5 Tips When Onboarding Locum Tenens
Here at LocumJobsOnline, we always try to make sure that finding a job or the right candidate for a position is as seamless as can be. Although once the contracts are signed, the next phase is making a locum tenens physician feel like they will be able to succeed and thrive in their new environment through onboarding procedures. Although a locum tenens physician may be used to entering new environments on every assignment, there are...
Doctor Shortage Or An Inefficient System?
“There’s a physician shortage.” You can not work in the healthcare industry without hearing that statement, or cliche, as some are calling it. We’ve even written about the doctor shortage on our sites. It makes sense. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) released their new physician workforce report in April of this year, which confirmed a looming doctor shortage. But now people are starting to...
Physician Knowledge On Care Costs Is Dangerously Low
Generally, patients expect so much out of their physicians. To know everything and have all the answers to their questions is certainly one of the most common expectations. It is true that in this day and age the quality of care is synonymous with the care costs. Yet, a study has found that some physicians are not exactly confident in their current knowledge of costs of certain medical services. Putting Their Knowledge to the Test In...
Still Bleeding: Theranos’ Future Troubling
Back in May of this year, I discussed Theranos’ fall from grace. I explored their journey from biotech startup that was supposed to revolutionize the healthcare industry, to a lesson for investors and Silicon Valley writers about due dilligence. Today, I look at what has happened in the past 6 months and what the future holds for Theranos and founder, Elizabeth Holmes. When I left you all in May, the biotech unicorn was already...
Healthcare Violence: Bigger Risk Than You Think
The average rate of violence (and other injuries by persons or animal) that resulted in days off from work across all industries in 2014 is 6.8% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, healthcare and social assistance blew all the other industries’ rates out of the water with the highest rate of 135.2%. In the healthcare industry, patients don’t go through metal detectors or security, nor are they screened for their...