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How Healthcare Reform Affects Locum Tenens Physicians and Healthcare Jobs

Politicians seem to have moved on to the next all-consuming topic (how to increase the nation’s borrowing level and decrease the deficit), leaving behind the last all-consuming subject of healthcare reform, which dominated debate in 2009 and early 2010. W... Read >

Why Medical Professionals Should Use Locum Tenens Physician Staffing Agencies

As the healthcare industry becomes more expensive, some medical professionals are shifting away from managing their own private practice, choosing instead to work for a healthcare provider or medical facility where they can avoid time-consuming paperwork ... Read >

Denver Real Estate: More Good News from the Front Range

I have written recently about the reasons homebuyers should buy Denver real estate now: low mortgage rates and tax deductions (1), as well as the Front Range’s growing population and increasing property values (2). While the housing market remains tenuous... Read >

Low Mortgage Rates Make Denver Real Estate, and All Real Estate, a Good Buy

If you are in the market to buy a house, this is the time to do it. For potential homebuyers who qualify, mortgage rates have reached historic lows, meaning hundreds of dollars of savings each month and year, as well as tens of thousands of dollars in sav... Read >

America’s Locum Tenens Industry Should Look to Britain for Physician Staffing Advice

With universal healthcare a fact in the United Kingdom, instead of a hotly contested issue as it is in the United States, physician staffing shortages often arise in Britain. With the right to receive healthcare lawfully enforced in the U.K. for all cases... Read >

The Locum Tenens Industry: Dips, Troughs, Medical Staffing and More

While the locum tenens industry is no doubt a major one, with several medical staffing agencies listed in BusinessWeek’s investing resource guide, exact figures about the locum tenens industry are hard to come by. A lack of clear industry definition, no c... Read >

Why It’s Better To Buy, and Not Rent, Denver Real Estate

While home ownership in America was once seen as a stabilizing economic force, the housing bubble of the past decade pushed many into mortgages that they couldn’t afford when the housing market crashed in 2007. The overleveraging of credit through risky m... Read >

Locum Tenens Physicians Help Make Strong Medical Facilities

Some medical facilities see locum tenens physicians, aka temporary physicians, as an expensive burden, as they often cost more to hire due to the temporary nature and required flexibility of their work. However, especially given the current economic and p... Read >

Locum Tenens: Allowing for Flexibility and Freedom when Searching for Physician Jobs

With health care needs increasing annually, the demand for physicians nationwide is soaring. At the same time the cost of health care and maintaining a private practice is soaring as well. This makes for great economic conditions for locum tenens physicia... Read >

Locum Tenens: From Medieval Times to Modern Physician Staffing

The term Locum Tenens has a large history, a somewhat obvious statement considering locum tenens is an expression from Latin, a dead language that’s thousands of years old. Locum tenens translates from Latin to mean “to hold the place of," but today it us... Read >