Each year Medical Economics holds a physician writing contest where it asks physicians to write a short essay on a particular topic. This year’s topic was “How...
Dr. Amy Wecker grew up outside of Boston, went to college in New Orleans, medical school in Israel and residency in New York City. After residency she settled...
Locums created the opportunity for emergency medicine Dr. Mandaar Gokhale to follow his dream of being an actor. Born in Manhattan, he attended college at Yale...
Dr. Thomas O’Mara’s journey to medicine started off with a love of science. In high school, he had a science teacher who had the students do research projects...
Massachusetts hospitalist Paymon Kayhani fled his native country as a teenager and arrived in the Boston area as a refugee with his parents and older sister...
There are many paths that lead physicians to try locum tenens. For Dr. Elizabeth Lumpkin, an anesthesiologist from Washington, the locums journey began with...
Working in locales as varied as Melbourne, Australia, Durham, N.C., and Cheyenne, Wyo., Dr. Michael Higginbotham has enjoyed a wide-ranging career in...
Dr. Johnny Shen’s interest in medicine started with a love of biology. While pursuing a master’s degree in cancer biology he realized that as much as he loved...