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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not the case in my line of work. It’s the opposite actually![/quote]

What is your line of work? [/quote]

Medicine [/quote]

I’m a physician, too. I used to think like you, until my prior hospital system started having financial difficulties, At this point, departments that were hurting started jettisoning the experienced doctors. It’s easy enough - the chair increases your service time to untenable levels or refuses to give you a bonus (or makes it a laughably small sum), at which point the experienced doctors leave. The administration  systematically replaced the experienced doctors with doctors who were just finishing up their fellowships. And then leadership ran around crowing about how much more money the department would make because of reduced personnel costs. I left before I was targeted because I had over ten years of experience, and people hired along with me started to get targeted. I should specify that the doctors who left were phenomenal, and were not weak in any way. They just cost too much money.

So, I fear that I have seen the future of medicine, and it looks awfully corporate. It’s only a matter of time before this strategy is deployed by other hospital systems, and I suspect that the economic damage wrought by covid will accelerate the process.[/quote]

If you don't have job security as a doctor, what's left. Health care is being taken over by private equity vultures who have no problem, along with hired gun management to screw people over. Of course patient care suffers, but who cares? Only the almighty dollar counts. Welcome to the America of continued increasing income inequality.[/quote]

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