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Financial Pressures, Ethical Challenges, and the Shift to Collective Bargaining in Hospital Medicine

  • By

  • Aksharananda Rambachan

  • Anand R. Habib

  • Elizabeth Dzeng

  • October 5, 2026

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    Hospital medicine has grown significantly over three decades, yet few hospitalists retire after a full career, limiting understanding of career sustainability.

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    Participants in a study identified key factors for career sustainability, including scheduling control, reduced workload, and seniority-related benefits.

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    Financialization in healthcare has created structural constraints that hinder the establishment of conditions necessary for hospitalist career longevity.

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    Younger hospitalists view medicine more as a job and are less willing to accept sacrifices compared to older colleagues, reflecting a shift in professional values.

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    Moral distress arises when clinicians recognize ethical actions but face institutional constraints that prevent them from acting on those beliefs.

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No Margin, No Mission? Financialization, Moral Distress, and the Turn Toward Collective Bargaining in Hospital Medicine

  • by Aksharananda Rambachan, Anand R. Habib, Elizabeth Dzeng

  • October 5, 2026

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