All too often, being a GP locum is not about working when and where you want, says Dr Judith Harvey.
Build time into your schedule to spend quality time with your family – there is no point working full-out to retirement and then regretting missing your children’s defining moments
Surely being a GP locum is all about doing a few weeks’ work, charging megabucks to do surgeries and then zooming off as an expedition doctor, watching wildlife in Africa while treating the odd case of sunburn. In your dreams.