subject: Consider The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Medical Recruitment Companies [print this page] She is very thrilled with her job as a lady doctor she says. She was initially working at South Pole but thanks to the physician staffing agency, she was asked to move to Alaska. She has the complete freedom to choose her work. Food and gas are her only expenses.
Practicing medicine is all that she has to do. She is now 48 and still believes that schedules can always be manipulated. This was started as a small business about 25 years ago but today it is one of the biggest businesses available all because there are fewer doctors in rural areas.
She has worked for staffing agencies off and on since 1998. An engineer, she decided at 32 to pursue a medical degree at the University of Utah. Her residency was completed in Denver and then she decided to work for Colorado Outward Bound School for almost a decade. Financially single but married, she visits her husband and his daughter in Spokane, Wash., between assignments and spends Augusts at Priest Lake in northern Idaho. She is able to get all the rent that he earns off her house in Salt Lake City.
Her time is split between a hospital in Ketchikan, Alaska and a hospital at Anchorage and thus sometimes she works for 24 hours. Regular job, their timing and money do not attract her. She wants to be able to enjoy the short life.
'The physician for hire business' was also started by this male doctor and he calls it locum tenens ad he says that doctors are far above work politics. About 1200 physicians work for this entrepreneur doctor who now has about four companies and has an office in Salt Lake City. $2000 a day is what neurosurgeons can expect while emergency services are paid about $50 an hour.
About 200 contacts are always in the pocket of the company. The growth of the number of graduates from medical school is not as much as the growth of the population in US and hence such doctors are continually in more demand. The shortage first starts because of regional disparities. The doctor was a medical student when he landed a federal grant to supply medical help to rural areas and Indian reservations across the West where doctors are scarce. He was doing so well that he started a company in 1979 but he had to sell it in 1990. Medical staffing industry is now seeing this same company as one that is leading.
His father, grandfather, two uncles and three brothers are all trained to be doctors. This doctor has another brother who is an architect for hospitals and clinics. The invention of the kidney dialysis machine is totally credited to his father who was also the chief of the Division of Artificial Organs at the University of Utah until 1999. His father thinks that many of the doctors are just leaving behind old practices and following new ones. There is more scope for business in this industry because when the economy and stock market come back the physicians who are older will give in their resignation making the need for doctors more.
