There are definitely capitalistic hospital business incentives at play here, but there is more than just that. Medicine is a notoriously supply-side gated field

There are definitely capitalistic hospital business incentives at play here, but there is more than just that. Medicine is a notoriously supply-side gated field, and intentionally so by all practitioners. It’s one of the main drivers of the sky high pay white coats get access to after all the hoop jumping. Speaking for the US, as it has a notorious track record for inefficiencies in its medicinal industry: the USA is getting older (aging population needing more care) with the cost of medical school higher than ever. With this, the production of doctors is unlikely to increase at a pace necessary to maintain levels of care uniformly across the board (for example, rural vs city medicine capabilities vary massively based on region). Most hospitals attempt to use technology to squeeze more out of their doctors, as getting more doctors isn’t cheap (because there aren’t enough of them). Hospitals can’t do much to solve the doctor production shortage - that involves legislative changes and the American Medical Association (lobbying arm). The capitalistic effects will compound all of this - but not so much in what you may be describing. If we don’t resolve things, in the medium-term future years we can see a bifurcation in medicine as we see in criminal defense law - the wealthy will have great access to world class healthcare, paid at an extreme premium, and everyone else will be out of luck. (Some would say we are already here there or rapidly approaching this state).