{"id":2843,"date":"2022-08-24T00:35:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2022-08-24T00:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:38:04","slug":"temporary-vs-permanent-is-it-time-to-restructure-physician-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/modio-press\/temporary-vs-permanent-is-it-time-to-restructure-physician-work","title":{"rendered":"Temporary vs. permanent: Is it time to restructure physician work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clinician burnout and staffing shortages have been taxing our healthcare system for years. The COVID-19 pandemic certainly exacerbated things; however, these issues loomed long before. While there is no silver bullet solution, we can agree that what\u2019s really important is patients having access to quality, credentialed providers. If providers aren\u2019t available, then we have a problem.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201clocum tenens\u201d means \u201cplaceholder\u201d in Latin. In healthcare, a locum tenens fills the gap for a provider who is absent. It\u2019s essentially a substitute. I practiced as a locum tenens surgeon for 10 years \u2014 I needed flexibility when I was launching my technology company, but I also genuinely enjoyed not being tied down to a brick-and-mortar practice.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full piece which is featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.physicianspractice.com\/view\/temporary-vs-permanent-is-it-time-to-restructure-physician-work-\">Physicians Practice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/join.modiohealth.com\/\">Modio Health<\/a> and how to streamline your credentialing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinician burnout and staffing shortages have been taxing our healthcare system for years. The COVID-19 pandemic certainly exacerbated things; however, these issues loomed long before. While there is no silver bullet solution, we can agree that what\u2019s really important is patients having access to quality,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/modio-press\/temporary-vs-permanent-is-it-time-to-restructure-physician-work\" class=\"btn btn-theme-dark read-more-link\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modio-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modiohealth.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}