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The aspect of retail just wanting a licensee with a pulse is not a new phenomenon. Its always been there.
Healthcare system pharmacy can't afford to just hire just anyone. Its still a challenge to hire high caliber pharmacists. PGY1&2 kids are still sought after. Over 30 resumes and there were 2 residency trained applicants. For those kids they don't need to subscribe to your gloom and doom. And neither do I.
There is still the issue of job-lock and the undercutting of salaries, which just because you claim YOU won't start dropping salaries, doesn't mean your peers at hungrier points in their careers might not (some of which already HAVE). Plus, at what point will this hit equilibrium and start shifting the other way. How many new healthcare system pharmacists are really going to be needed each year? You gonna take the initiative and implement the Jack Welch vitality model at your institution to make sure you have room for a few qualified PGY1/2's each year? Just because PGY1/2 is enough now for these kids coming out, who is to say that will be enough a few years from now? I remember when PGY1 meant virtually an automatic clinical specialty gig immediately, and that wasn't that long ago...
You're obviously the person on the board that has been the most successful by far in pharmacy and an ultra-bright guy who would have been at the top of the pack in any era of just about any profession you had chosen... but you did make the bulk of your ascension during the cake days of pharmacy and I think you misunderestimate (wanted to make you feel like you were back in Texas ) the struggles these kids just graduating are facing and will continue to face moving forward...