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Back in the spring, I was getting hit up for ICU locus tenens work in New York.  The going rate was about double what I typically see advertised for locum work.  Come summer, I was seeing ads for work in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and Florida, though the going rate was down some.  Now I’m seeing rates approach those of New York, but the work is throughout the country.  I imagine that if things continue, supply and demand working the way it does, the offers will continue to get more lucrative.  The problem is that unlike spring, where resources were needed desperately in a single area of the country, we are approaching a beggar-thy-neighbor situation.  There are only so many qualified MD’s in the country, and more crucially, there are only so many nurses and respiratory therapists.

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Back in the spring, I was getting hit up for ICU locus tenens work in New York.  The going rate was about double what I typically see advertised for locum work.  Come summer, I was seeing ads for work in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and Florida, though the going rate was down some.  Now I’m seeing rates approach those of New York, but the work is throughout the country.  I imagine that if things continue, supply and demand working the way it does, the offers will continue to get more lucrative.  The problem is that unlike spring, where resources were needed desperately in a single area of the country, we are approaching a beggar-thy-neighbor situation.  There are only so many qualified MD’s in the country, and more crucially, there are only so many nurses and respiratory therapists.

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