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...full-time police presence. Rumors of their arrival have spread among Aboriginal people, many of them exhausted by a long string of failed policies. "Half the people here don't know what's going on," says one leader wearily. Dr. Peter Beaumont was working last week as a locum in Jabiru when soldiers turned up. They told locals they were "just looking around," he says. "Maybe they were, but people were nervous." Old fears linger: the inquiry found sexual abuse often went unreported because people were afraid their children would be taken away-as many were last century by white...
...Middle Ages, the term locum tenens, Latin for "holding the place," was used to describe substitute priests. Though still a church term, locum tenens is also used for temporary health-care jobs. John Huneke, 69, who last year sold the ophthalmology practice he ran for 33 years in Ada, Okla., has done several locum tenens stints through CompHealth. Now he and his wife Frances crisscross the country in a Dodge pickup, towing their one-bedroom, fifth-wheel camper. This summer they camped in the Painted Desert, 70 miles east of the Grand Canyon, while Huneke worked in a government...
Since U.S. universities graduate some 37,000 lawyers, 16,000 doctors and 51,000 accountants annually, plenty of labor power is available. Upscale service agencies are springing up to match that supply with the new demand. Temporary agencies that place physicians are an especially fast-growing group. Atlanta's Locum Tenens, founded in 1983, has 2,000 doctors on call. The agency's revenues last year reached $3 million, twice the 1984 total. Typically, a general-practice doctor hired through Locum Tenens is paid a fee of $440 a day. The agency provides malpractice coverage and travel expenses...
...where he cadged awhile in Manhattan, worked in the Ford factory in Detroit, lived in uneasy clover as a harlot's fancy man. Back in Paris, he finished medical school, practiced in a slum, got mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic...
Hurricane and revolt again struck Cuba last week. Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes had left Havana for Sagua la Grande in north central Cuba to survey the storm damage and relief measures (see p. 18). Locum tenens at Havana was Col. Horacio' Ferrer, onetime Army surgeon and oculist who last month refused the Army's nomination as Provi- sional President. Early in the week, to deal with the restless Army, President de Cespedes made Col. Ferrer Secretary of War. Secretary Ferrer promptly barked : "The natural orgy that followed Machado's overthrow is over. The troops henceforth...