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Who Gets to See the Math?
Payers, physicians, candidates and regulators all asked for the spreadsheet this week.
Oct 4
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Robert Truog
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September 2026
The Risk Moved Down the Org Chart
Contract staffing is back to normal. The contracts aren't.
Sep 27
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Robert Truog
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The Year Medicine Started Paying for Accountability
Hospitals discovered that accountability works better when somebody is actually paid to be accountable, a breakthrough previously known as “having a…
Sep 20
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Robert Truog
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Healthcare Learned How to Hire. It Still Hasn’t Learned How to Start
Healthcare can hire clinicians faster than it can let them treat anyone, which is efficient if the goal is to assemble the world’s most expensive…
Sep 13
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Robert Truog
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The Supply They’re Building and the Jobs They’re Not Designing
Everybody is building a medical school. Nobody is building a job.
Sep 6
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Robert Truog
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August 2026
The Pincer Movement
The physician shortage and the AI revolution are headed for the same intersection.
Aug 30
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Robert Truog
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The Visa You Can’t Expedite
How immigration policy became an invisible constraint on America’s physician workforce
Aug 23
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Robert Truog
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The Contract That Isn't
Courts and legislators are dismantling the noncompete — and most health systems built their whole retention plan on it
Aug 16
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Robert Truog
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Physicians' Newest Competitor Never Sleeps, Never Bills, and Is Frequently Wrong
The algorithm got the first appointment. The doctor gets the part that requires a spine.
Aug 9
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Robert Truog
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The Infrastructure Divide
39% of health systems have a retention strategy. The rest are hoping for the best.
Aug 2
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Robert Truog
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July 2026
Three Pipelines, No Coordination
The physician supply chain spreadsheets are lying to themselves
Jul 26
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Robert Truog
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The Shortcut That Requires More Steps
AI was supposed to save time. The math isn't mathing.
Jul 19
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Robert Truog
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