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[ME Michaud]

Boooo !!!!!

A friend who retired from his pediatric practice became a traveling
physician. I remember how happy he was when he found out his agency paid
all licensing fees (and malpractice insurance, also), so the money he made
(which was good) was all his before taxes.
-M


On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nursing licensure is an interesting thing. There are states known as
> "compact states" which accept each other's licenses. This means that if one
> is a travel nurse, as I was for a time, one doesn't have to go through the
> bother of obtaining a temporary license to work in that state. There are
> some 20 of those. The rest don't and you have to jump through a plethora of
> hoops, in some cases, to get those temporary licenses, plus it costs a
> bundle in many of those states. I decided after the first time (Ohio) that
> I just wasn't going to bother and was going to stick to working in compact
> states. The kicker is that wages are a bit lower in those states (possible
> wage fixing?). Some of them are so-called "right to work"=--what my late ex
> always called "right to slave"--states, but not all. Of course the
> "popular" destinations for travelers...California, Hawaii, Florida, New
> York...are NOT compact states and require one to lay out large amounts and
> jump through many hoops to get that temporary license.
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