All right, everyone. So this is Dr. Knee here. I actually have a special guest from provider

solutions and development team. But we're going to be talking about what it's like to work for yourself,

what it's like to be a locum's and kind of flush that out more because we know that right now

we're in the midst of a lot of fellows, a lot of fifth year or chief residents, whatever specialty

that you may be in, they are looking for jobs. And it's really important that they know what

options are available to them, right? There are different ways in which you can work with a hospital,

with a clinic. It's not just a traditional way, hence docs outside the box. We're going to

tell you guys about the non-traditional ways in which you can work. So I just want to start off by

telling my quick story about doing locums. So I did my residency in general surgery. I did five years

at Morehouse School of Medicine, one of the best five years ever in general surgery. Tough, but I'd

learned a lot.

And then afterwards, I did a trauma surgery fellowship at the University of Miami,

trauma center.

That was a great experience also.

But what I started to notice is right around the January, I'd say December, January timeframe,

I really was in the midst of interviewing at different places. And I really felt

uncomfortable interviewing at these places for five to eight hours a day and then deciding that I was

going to sign a three year or five year contract just off of that. Just for me, that was a problem.

I think for other people, that's not that big of a deal. But for me, that was a problem. And during that time, I was talking to my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife, and I was just saying, you know, I just feel really uncomfortable doing this. And she said, well, why don't you consider Locums? And I had no clue what that was. She educated me on what it was, and I quickly poohed it. And I poo-pooed it mainly

because the rest of my fellows weren't doing it. And that really, to me, looking back, is really

not the smartest decision to make, right? You're making decisions based off of what other people

will think instead of, you know, making a decision for yourself. So after, you know, several other interviews

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