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  • Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, Oxfam, Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, and Mennonite relief organizations, Artists for Peace and Justice, and American soldiers are all going to Haiti in locum tenens.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Protestant traditions have what is known as the Priesthood of All Believers, a principle that argues we are all, in effect, called to be ministers—givers of care and locum tenens placeholders for God.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Protestant traditions have what is known as the Priesthood of All Believers, a principle that argues we are all, in effect, called to be ministers—givers of care and locum tenens placeholders for God.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, Oxfam, Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, and Mennonite relief organizations, Artists for Peace and Justice, and American soldiers are all going to Haiti in locum tenens.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, Oxfam, Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, and Mennonite relief organizations, Artists for Peace and Justice, and American soldiers are all going to Haiti in locum tenens.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Protestant traditions have what is known as the Priesthood of All Believers, a principle that argues we are all, in effect, called to be ministers—givers of care and locum tenens placeholders for God.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • K The forensic pathologist was a locum tenens senior registrar, and if he had expected this three-week stint of duty in the agreeable West Country to be less arduous than his London job, he was disappointed.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • Interfax reports on comments made by the current locum tenens of the Moscow Patriarchate:

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Locum tenens isn't a bargain for hospitals or a health-care system that is already the world's costliest and accounts for nearly 17% of the U.S. economy, according to federal government data.

    Surgeon Shortage Pushes Hospitals to Hire Temps 2009

  • The company, which takes its name from the Latin phrase meaning "to stand in another's place," matches hospitals with what the medical field calls locum tenens doctors.

    Surgeon Shortage Pushes Hospitals to Hire Temps 2009

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