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Healthcare workers are experiencing disgruntlement due to losing autonomy as hospitals consolidate. The author, an anonymous physician, argues that forming groups as clinicians could regain some of this lost status through providing fuller services, benefiting from economies of scale, achieving broader clinical skill sets, and a wider range of ancillary services. They predict this will become a new way of doing business, allowing medical staff to accommodate varying healthcare needs across regions, as well as telemedicine.