They can read, but can not effect change.

Most noncompetes are “non-negotiable”. Just the way the hullking 800 pound gorillas do business.

1) lobby to keep hospital reimbursement indexed to inflation, but not doctor reimbursement (which deflates). Make it difficult for private doctors to compete unless they have ownership interests in facility/hospital/laboratory services .
2) lobby to keep physicians from being able to own said services which are indexed to inflation. See “certificate of need” which the fcc has already opined is restraint of trade. And yet, they continue.
3) incentivize employed doctors to refer only to other employed specialists through at best questionably legal means. Run nonemployed doctors out of business as circumstances allow.
4) remove employed doctors negotiating power to renegotiate their contracts once the initial contract is up by attaching a noncompete which survives the termination of the contract.

A locked in workforce powerless to effect change or resist the dictates of the hospital c suite. Yeay!