KevinMD January 15, 2026
Allan Dobzyniak, MD

Can there actually be a medical profession with physicians as only employees in an industrialized corporate or socialized system with a union representing their collective interests? Does it matter, and should it matter? Are there still alternatives?

Asking another party, specifically the government, to solve major predicaments consuming the profession is not a plan. Worse, it is a clear sign of dependency and weakness. There is no other entity that can deal with the daunting issues confronting individual physicians and the medical profession as well as they can. If only the AMA and other professional organizations would at once begin to examine the payment quagmire with its ridiculous laws (Stark), mandates, regulations, and outright scams that rig the system to...

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