“I don’t have to be the guy that runs the show, I don’t have to be the guy that bills the fortune,” says Dr. O’Mara. “I like doing the work.” Seven years and countless assignments later, Dr. O’Mara loves the chance locums gives him to try different things and take his family with him on assignments to get to know other parts of the country. Learn more about Dr. O’Mara’s locum tenens story.Locum tenens gave Dr. O’Mara the opportunity to just practice medicine without worrying about managing a practice with its employment issues and government regulations.
VIDEO: Locum Tenens Allows Dr. O’Mara to Focus on Medicine, Rather than Business
November 27th, 2015 1 Min readhttps://youtu.be/Km7K6sWFxOY
After nine years in private practice, Dr. Thomas O’Mara realized it was taking a toll on his life and his family. The stress of not just working as a pulmonologist but managing his own practice was almost more than his family could bear. After taking a much needed break to reassess his career, he found locum tenens.
“For nine years, the practice was very busy. I had what I thought was a good relationship with my [business] partner but then I realized maybe the relationship wasn’t as good as I thought. It was consuming my life with my wife, my life with my children and it wasn’t allowing me to live.”
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Chad Saley
Chad Saley is a public relations manager at CHG Healthcare, the parent company of CompHealth.