Part of it is that I work at a teaching hospital, so a lot of them are mainly here just to pass down knowledge to residents. The other part is that I live in one of the most conservative (poor) states in America and young doctors don't want to move here, especially if they've specialized.

There's definitely a lot less of them than there were 5 years ago. First wave got taken out(figuratively) when CMS went from Icd-9 codes to icd-10 codes, and everyone had to re-memorize every diagnosis code they use again.

The second wave got taken out(literally) by COVID, we were one of the states where people sued because the hospital made clinicians get vaccinated. So I got to see a bunch of sweet older providers die/be put on oxygen.

And lastly the change over to Epic was just a cherry on top to get the vast majority of the older providers to quit. Now we have huge wait times for most specialty medicine clinics.