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In the past, there was a stigma that locum tenens was for physicians who couldn’t get a “real job.” Doctors who did this temporary work may have been viewed as not being on top of their game, or they were retiring and on their way out. Not so anymore. According to the National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations (NALTO), every year about 52,000 locum tenens providers take care of more than 7.5 million Americans.

How the Polycystic Kidney Foundation is reaching out to underserved communities and addressing disparities.

Even for the top medical school students in the country, an otolaryngology residency is one of the most difficult specialties to land, and nearly 40% of applicants don’t match. Last year, 574 highly qualified applicants competed for one of 341 openings. That left 233 aspiring otolaryngologists without a residency in their chosen field. After four years of hard work and big student loans for many, what happens to these students?
“It’s an extremely challenging situation to work through, partly ...

“The show instilled in the public’s mind that paramedic programs needed educational and taxpayer support,” says emergency physician Ronald D. Stewart, MD, FACEP, who served as a consultant on the series and is a professor emeritus in emergency medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. “When budgets came up, the thought of not funding an outreach program like a paramedic system became unacceptable to the public and any legislative body.”
According to Dr. Stewart, at the time “E...

It doesn’t necessarily take a crystal ball to see the bigger future of otolaryngology, but the details can sometimes be a little murky. ENTtoday asked four newly minted chairs of otolaryngology departments how they made it to their positions, what they feel is the most important aspect of leadership, and what they feel the future holds for academic medicine.

With thousands of civilians killed since February in the Russian war on Ukraine, the Ukrainian people face one of the biggest challenges in their history. As officials and observers allege war crimes, we spoke with three on-the-ground physicians about what is happening, how emergency physicians there are coping, and what they need to survive.

Ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA), a minimally invasive alternative to thyroid surgery, has been used internationally to shrink large, benign thyroid nodules for more than a decade. But only in recent years has there been growing interest in the U.S. in this procedure, typically performed by endocrinologists, radiologists, and otolaryngologists.
“As a thyroid surgeon, I became aware of literature that arose in Asia and Europe, where radiofrequency ablation has been used for many...

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen crisis standards of care created and implemented in emergency departments across the United States, from waiting rooms converted into treatment spaces to patients back-transferred from urban hospitals with oxygen shortages to rural centers. While some of these documents have been successful, others have been problematic.

Head and neck cancer has been described as a collection of rare diseases, which means means that pathologic expertise in accurate diagnosis is essential. Certainly, there are differences between how a community-based practice and a tertiary care center might approach head and neck cancer diagnosis. But what are they, why do they exist, and what options are there for collaboration?

The road to understanding the various causes of hearing loss and finding the most appropriate treatments has been figuratively as narrow and winding as the inner ear itself. But new imaging techniques using nanotechnology, as well as research advances in pharmaceutical treatments, may mean a wide range of solutions are within sight...

For decades, rheumatologist Cindy Flower, MD, accumulated images of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in her patients, as well as clinical vignettes to use in teaching at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados. For decades, she has wanted to do something wide-reaching with these materials, sharing information from her practice and her mentor, the late Prof. George D. Nicholson, DM.