Healthcare Job Losses Reshape Physician Employment Landscape
Healthcare shed 28,000 jobs in February 2026 amid mounting labor strikes and evolving staffing expectations, creating a fragmented employment landscape where specialty-specific pressures diverge sharply from aggregate trends. Physicians and APPs must navigate these cross-currents strategically, recognizing that workforce contractions often concentrate in non-clinical roles while high-demand specialties like anesthesiology face acute shortages.