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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Locum Tenens: More Than a Temporary Career Choice
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Guest: Jenni Hunter
Host: Bruce Japsen
The field of temporary workers has become commonplace to satisfy shortages of nurses and fill gaps to ensure health care delivery. Doctors too — and particularly primary care physicians — are increasingly going locum tenens. The numbers may surprise you. Jenni Hunter, divisional vice president of Staff Care, tells host Bruce Japsen about how physician staffing is no longer just temporary but a career choice for more of the nation's physicians.