The UK may be feeling the shortage of doctors before the impact hits us fully here in the US. In some states already the shortage is being felt. The NHS had to made some changes to allow junior doctors from India to remain for a long period of time. BD A shortage of junior doctors...
What is interesting here is that one of the states cited receiving more is Arizona at 65%, and I just posted that they are trying to kick 300,000 members in that state off the program. This is basically what is trying to happen here, so are we reforming healthcare? Arizona just had to sell...
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Kaiser to cut 860 Health IT positions “The article said some employees could apply with IBM, but no mention of which area of IBM will be assuming the contract and if the division is located in the US .” If they are cutting jobs in outsourcing and business consulting, do those folks stand a chance at...
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I have posted several articles relative to traveling or temporary healthcare workers and you can real the partial clips below or go to the entire post. Surgeons are now working at several locations, so are doctors at facilities such as Kaiser as they tend to be less expensive employees and everyone...
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