September 20, 2026
The Year Medicine Started Paying for Accountability
6.0% compensation growth. 3.4% productivity growth. In hospital-based roles, 7.2% against 1.6% — a gap wide enough to have its own weather system.
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September 20, 2026
6.0% compensation growth. 3.4% productivity growth. In hospital-based roles, 7.2% against 1.6% — a gap wide enough to have its own weather system.
Read on Substack →September 13, 2026
6.0% compensation growth. 3.4% productivity growth. In hospital-based roles, 7.2% against 1.6% — a gap wide enough to have its own weather system.
Read on Substack →September 6, 2026
68.7% of family medicine residents stay in-state after training. 33.2% of colon and rectal surgery residents do. Nobody has figured out how to make the second number behave like the first.
Read on Substack →August 30, 2026
$200 million in state investments to train physicians for rural practice. A federal regulatory framework that may reprice the cognitive work those physicians are trained to do. Both happening at once. Neither talking to the other.
Read on Substack →August 23, 2026
47.2%. That’s the share of America’s internal medicine workforce born outside the United States. In nephrology, it’s 62%. In geriatrics—the specialty HRSA projects at lowest supply adequacy by 2038—it’s nearly 60%.
Read on Substack →August 16, 2026
A Connecticut appeals court just voided a physician noncompete backed by a $2.3 million payout and an arbitrator's blessing. Oregon just passed a law requiring employers to document 20% of a physician's salary in recruitment costs before any mobility restriction can stick. Both happened this month. Neither made the front…
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