He sat down with the group heads about it. They said to his face it isn't happening. When he showed them months worth of assignments, they unashamedly said yes it is happening, and that it is a good thing as no one else has the skillset to cover those cases.
When he pointed out the same attendings always in robot, breast, and podiatry rooms, they said "oh, they have poor room turnover times and their skills arent great, so it's the safest place to put them so they can't injure anyone."
Place has had some locums since Covid started. Not a single one has agreed to cover vascular, OB, C sections, endoscopy, or even holding the pagers.
I called him yesterday and told him to move a bit more south. Quite literally any job will be at least a marginal bit better. Even call taking jobs with similar hours with much better pay and benefits. Looked up gasworks and 8/10 hospitals within an hour of him are hiring. Also told him to avoid jobs with a busy OB service, for his own sanity.
Even the worst AMC couldn't get away with such behavior.