Healthcare Briefly
The physician workforce, decoded weekly.
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The Infrastructure Divide
Thirty-nine percent. That’s the share of health systems with a formal physician retention strategy. The other 61% are, presumably, hoping for the best.
This week’s news revealed something more durable than a staffing trend: a structura...
Three Pipelines, No Coordination
Sixty-three percent. That's the share of physicians who now work locum tenens or plan to—large enough to stop being a staffing strategy and start being a workforce structure.
This week's news carried a theme that doesn't fit neatly int...
The Shortcut That Requires More Steps
This week in healthcare news had the distinct energy of a system that was promised a shortcut and is now realizing the shortcut requires more steps than the original route.
The dominant theme was AI documentation tools, and the growing...
When Nurses Strike, Physicians Feel the Tremors
July 12, 2026
This week in healthcare labor had the distinct feeling of a system discovering that its load-bearing walls are not, in fact, where the blueprints said they were.
The largest nursing strike in Massachusetts history began at B...
The Hospital Is Losing Its Grip
This week in healthcare employment had the distinct energy of a system slowly realizing that the deal it's been offering clinicians no longer works—and that clinicians noticed first.
The hospital, long the default employer of physician...
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Robert Truog, founder of PhysEmp.com. Observations from 30+ years in physician recruiting—workforce shortages, compensation, contracts, AI in healthcare and recruiting, and the ongoing challenge of staffing hospitals without NASA-level scheduling.
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