KevinMD March 31, 2025
Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD

Physicians are healers; they were not meant to be hunted. Yet in modern America, the very system that once revered physicians has turned against them, weaponizing regulations and laws into weapons and transforming healers into criminals. The Controlled Substances Act, health care fraud statutes, and a labyrinth of federal regulations have ensnared countless physicians in a trap of legal peril, branding them as fraudsters when their only crime was dedication to their patients.

For centuries, physicians have stood as pillars of trust, ethics, and sacrifice. Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence were four physicians (Josiah Bartlett, Lyman Hall, Benjamin Rush, and Matthew Thornton). This underscores the foundational role of medicine in American democracy. But today, white coats are...

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