I guess i'd be careful assuming the medical career is ultra stable even in a black swan type event. It is in some ways. But. In my wife's physician practice in a large metropolitan area, due to Covid and the subsequent huge patient volume drop (pediatric emergency hospital), they canned a whole lot of the PA's and NP's almost overnight. Not furloughed to come back later. Just gone. See ya. It was unfortunate. Thankfully she was relatively safe from getting axed due to her being very specialized, although her paychecks took a pretty huge hit until relatively recently.

And here I am almost at the bottom of a legacy seniority list and the paychecks still kept clearing every month. Go figure. Oh and on the schedule side, her and her co-workers all still have to share the load of working the occasional overnight shifts and weekends/holidays, getting off shift 4 hours late and being exhausted with the kids while im out on a 4-day, etc etc. No seniority system in place to ensure you might have increased QOL control as you get older. No easy path to no nights/weekends/holidays. I'm also only speaking for her particular practice, I suppose it could be different elsewhere. I guess just pluses and minuses to whatever career one chooses. She still loves it.