When Residency Stops Being Hard and Starts Being Harmful: Recognizing the Physical and Cognitive Toll of Training
Putting the TV remote in the freezer. Pouring coffee into a cereal bowl. Catching only half of what’s said on rounds, not because you weren’t listening, but because your working memory simply didn’t have room to hold it. These aren’t jokes residents tell about being tired. They’re data points — small, involuntary signals that chronic […]
Noncompete Rollbacks Redefine Physician Recruitment Leverage
State courts and legislatures are systematically narrowing physician noncompete enforceability. A Connecticut appeals court voided a two-year noncompete despite a $2.3M payout, while Oregon’s new law renders most physician noncompetes void except when employers document recruitment investments of 20% or more of annual salary. These developments are forcing health systems to shift from covenant-dependent retention to investment-documented, genuinely competitive recruiting strategies.