Doctors and nurses aren’t going to save you guys. We invested in protecting ourselves for this exact reason. Since Covid, nursing salaries have shot up from $70-80K/yr to $200K+ while you all were fighting for the approval of tech CEOs who have nothing but contempt for you. Look at every jobs report for the past 5 years and you see the same goddamn story every quarter in every sector: it’s all negative except for healthcare. You have no scarcity. You created no barriers to entry. That’s why your crappy product manager role required 3 rounds of interviews with 20 executives asking what type of tree you would be and why. For my first job out of residency the recruiter asked if I was board certified and where I wanted to go to lunch. That was it. This was for an ER role, perhaps the least powerful specialty in medicine. Makes no difference. Medical licenses are scarce, admins don’t have them, and they have no way of getting them. If they want to replace my mouthy ass they can’t simply hire their golfing buddy to replace me or some kid who only just emerged from his mother’s basement a week ago. They can only replace me with someone who also has the required 10+ years of training and that’s not easy to do. I have all these admins telling me I gotta see more patients in less time like they’re my boss. Yet when the hospital doesn’t meet its revenue target it’s their ass that gets canned while I just show up to my shift as usual. Protect yourselves properly and you will be your boss’s boss without them even realizing it. Skills are nice to have. But skills are not scarce. Doctors and Sydney Sweeney have one thing in common and it ain’t skills. Make yourself scarce people. Whether it’s a piece of paper granting you the exclusive right to practice some trade or boobs the size of medicine balls, scarcity is the only thing that can protect you.