What's It Like to Be a Traveling Orthopedic Surgeon?
(MedPage Today) -- Sonya Sloan, MD, is a traveling orthopedic surgeon, a locum tenens physician, an author, a speaker, and a mother. In her work across the U.S. for more than a decade, she has seen and treated just about everything. She was also... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 29, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Cost of living pushing more staff to ‘off-framework’ agencies
Clinicians are increasingly choosing to join ‘off-framework’ staffing agencies which pay higher day rates, pushing up trusts’ costs, according to information shared with HSJ. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 27, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Foster Farms, temp agencies fined $3.8 million for failing to notify workers of COVID-19 sick pay
Foster Farms and three temporary staffing agencies were fined $3.8 million collectively for allegedly failing to inform nearly 4,000 temporary workers of their COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - April 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christian Martinez Source Type: news
Provider relief fund reporting extensions are available
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 26, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Health delegates lay blame for NHS problems squarely on Tories
The responsibility for the struggle facing the NHS was at the heart of the message in the first motion, when UNISON’s first in-person health conference since 2019 opened in Liverpool this morning.
And the gist of it was: “The blame lies with this government – not COVID.”
In the first of a series of motions on health, safety and wellbeing, Eddie Woolley for the service group executive told delegates that, in the 10 years leading up to the pandemic, “we have been shouting from the rooftops about the lack of investment … the government have done nothing.”
The health service now faced a situation where ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 25, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News 2022 Health Care Service Group Conference NHS Source Type: news
United Healthcare moves to designated provider program
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 18, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Radiology earnings high, but gender gaps remain
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 15, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 13, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 1, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Could paid family leave help fix radiology's 'leaky pipeline' for women?
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 24, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
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Once again, America is in denial about signs of a fresh Covid wave | Eric Topol
In the past couple of weeks, UK, Germany, France and others are experiencing a new wave. The US should get readyWhen it comes to Covid, the United States specializes in denialism. Deny the human-to-human transmission of the virus when China ’s first cases were publicized in late 2019. Deny that the virus is airborne. Deny the need for boosters across all adult age groups. There are many more examples, but now one stands out – learning from other countries.In early 2020, with the major outbreak in the Lombardy region of Italy that rapidly and profoundly outstripped hospital resources and medical staffing, Americans expr...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 16, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Eric Topol Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science US news US politics Vaccines and immunisation Source Type: news
NHS employers told: ‘Comply in full’ with tax rules for ‘locum and agency staff’
NHS England has told trusts and commissioners to ‘comply in full’ with regulations which mean deducting tax and national insurance from the payments made to some contractors, despite the ‘substantial administrative implications’ this will create. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 9, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Physicians Are More Open to Practicing in Rural Areas: Report Physicians Are More Open to Practicing in Rural Areas: Report
COVID-19 plays a role as physicians rethink work-life balance; some use locum tenens gigs to"try out" less populated areas.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Contract Nurse Agencies Are Making Big Money in the Age of COVID-19. Are They ‘Exploiting’ the Pandemic?
In the 40 years that Jennie Kahn has worked as a registered nurse, the last two have been by far the most grueling.
A lot of that is due to COVID-19, which transformed health care facilities, including Thomas Health’s hospital system in Charleston, West Virginia, where Kahn works, into triage centers and forced nurses to take on an extraordinary amount of personal risk and heartache. It’s no mystery why some 18% of health care workers quit their jobs between Feb 2020 and Sept 2021, according to a Morning Consult poll.
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But another reason these past two years have been...
Source: TIME: Health - February 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abby Vesoulis and Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
