Are U.S. Doctors 'Free' to Practice Medicine?


The title question might seem silly, even ludicrous. It is anything but.
In the United States today, a truck driver is free to choose which gear to use going up a hill and at what speed to go down the hill. Accountants and lawyers are free to accept or refuse specific jobs and how to do their work.
Clinical physicians are not similarly free to do their work as they see fit in the best interests of the patient before them
People who never went to medical school-insurance actuaries, state insurance commissioners, and federal regulators-dictate to physicians what they can do for their patients, and especially, what they cannot. Hospital lawyers require physicians to strictly follow federal guidelines as though Washington's advisories were stone tablets handed down from Mount Sinai. The one person not free to practice best medicine on you is your personal doctor.
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