Healthcare’s Smokejumpers: Filling Critical Clinical Gaps with Independent Contractor Physicians
What if working with independent contractor physicians is the key to unlocking a more stable sustainable healthcare workforce?
What if working with independent contractor physicians is the key to unlocking a more stable sustainable healthcare workforce?
Many physicians, podiatrists, psychologists, and occupational and physical therapists are able to take advantage of the ability to be an independent contractor with little scrutiny. Those who oppose it when it comes to nursing fail to see nurses as anything but a tax classification; they don’t understand that trying to corral nurses back into a system of work that does not work for them will only intensify the nursing shortage by exacerbating the flight from the workforce.
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