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Guam needs more doctors – Learn how you can help
Guam Memorial Hospital’s chief of internal medicine shares what it’s like working locum tenens in Guam and why doctors are needed there.
Author: Kari Redfield
Kari Redfield is a professional content marketing writer. She also is a novelist and writes for newsstand magazines and has had work appear in publications such as Arizona Highways, Sedona Magazine, and American Fitness. And like the locums physicians profiled in these stories, she loves the flexibility and new experiences that her unique job provides, and loves to travel. She has been known to spend weeks in the U.S. West in her Aliner, checking out classic trad rock climbs, epic mountain bike rides, and other adventures while writing from the road.
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