The weaponization of rules: How regulatory overreach puts physicians and health care at risk

KevinMD June 24, 2025
Kayvan Haddadan, MD

In recent years, an alarming trend has emerged within the health care system, one that is eroding the very backbone of medical care delivery: the physician. What once were rules and regulations designed to protect and elevate the standard of medical care are increasingly being exploited by medical authorities as a tool to extort, reprimand, and harass physicians. More disturbingly, this extortion is now cloaked as “education,” forcing doctors to pay exorbitant fees to sustain bloated bureaucratic systems that feed on their labor, all while pretending to “improve care.”

If this issue is not confronted with urgency, we risk dismantling the foundations of health care entirely. The harrowing decline in medical fellowship applications is just the beginning, a bellwether of...

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