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Why would any physician believe that the practice of medicine will become less abusive for them in the future?

Curtis G. Graham, MD
Physician
June 9, 2025
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The perpetuation of the increasing abuse of physicians across our nation has reached a level now that is essentially unrepairable. The Medical-Industrial-Economic Complex (Deep State of Medicine) has been the aggressive predator of the medical profession for decades. It is not by chance that the planning for the takeover of health care and the medical profession came into being decades ago.

Older physicians have seen and experienced all the tactics that our government, working in tandem with medical school education scholars over the last hundred years, have intentionally built into our medical health care system—a series of effective maneuvers for converting physicians from the era of freedom to practice medicine to being a commodity to be bought and sold to the highest bidder.

The medical school education system instigated the first and most effective framework to harm physicians by requiring medical schools to never offer a business education to medical school students. The egregious nature of such a requirement has never changed. It has resulted in graduating medical students who are business ignorant. Can you imagine the number of rural and family medicine physicians in private medical practice (about 500,000 of these physicians today) in our nation that have constantly struggled to make enough income commensurate with their elite status as physicians?

When you have a physician managing a medical practice business who has no idea how to do it efficiently, you get low incomes—some so low that they lose their medical practice because they have no credible way to increase their incomes. Those who think that increasing their number of medical patients will help often fail because they know nothing about what marketing is all about. The consequences of that become a medical career full of unending business problems, money concerns, and practice instability. Might that continuous battle lead to burnout, disappointment, family disruptions, or even quitting medical practice? You know I’m right.

It is quite clear that the medical education scholars and our government already control medical practice with increasing fee restrictions and mandates and never bother to consider how far they can push physicians before they abandon medical practice. Presently, about 30 percent of physicians have already quit medical practice or intend to. That is documented using the data relating to the replacement of our American medical doctors by foreign physicians (those who have been indoctrinated into socialized medicine already). What have the administrators of medicine done to ease the abuse of our physicians over the last 10 decades? Nothing.

Rather than boost the ability and business knowledge of our physicians across our nation, our medical education and medical practice administrators have chosen to let our physicians quit and replace them with the “business ignorant” foreign physicians. The consequences of that are enormous and destructive for our medical practice profession. Yes, the complete takeover of the medical profession will likely be complete by 2030.

Because our health care and medical profession crises are already in full motion and nothing by any entity is being done about the causes of it, doesn’t it logically seem like a problem that could easily be eliminated if every physician is equipped with the tools of business education?

My research over 25 years tells me that overlooking the increasing causes of physicians’ torments, that they have been tolerating during many years of private medical practice, has reached a limit for most private medical practice physicians.

Perhaps in God’s perspective, it’s time to surrender. Recent medical literature has been supporting the advancement of nurse practitioners and the reduction of physicians to solve the unhappy physician problems. Either that, or what seems to be more widely proposed in medical literature is for all physicians to have one to three freelance jobs while still practicing.

Yes, what is really overwhelming for physicians is to advise them to also manage three other businesses or jobs just to keep their medical practice afloat.

The fact that most of these abuses of physicians have been happening over such a prolonged period without any efforts from the medical education system or those in a position to alleviate the causes of the multiple stresses means the value of physicians in our society has decreased significantly. That has been perpetuated by the fact that physicians themselves have been underrating their own value to the profession in increasing numbers.

If the leadership members of the medical profession have not been able to justify their patriotic support of the profession by fighting the Deep State predators, we can never on our own bring back the freedom we once enjoyed in private medical practice. We have about 15 medical doctors in our national Congress, and even they become unable to influence far better changes in the medical care system. That would seem to illustrate the futility of expecting progressively better treatment of physicians in medical practice—or just not caring what happens to practicing physicians.

It may be a sign that physicians have learned that they are in the game of medical practice and are isolated from all other physicians for good reasons. The competition between or among physicians that I have experienced in my 40 years in medical practice runs far deeper and is more detrimental to the survival of private medical practice than most physicians think. On the surface of interaction among many physicians is a quiet, respectable, and friendly atmosphere. As practice stresses have increased throughout those years, the interactions among physicians have become more than unfriendly, more aggressive, more critical, and more ready to punish or humiliate others.

Those of us who have experienced actual examples of these changes may have come to the belief that it will take a miracle to bring so many imposing and destructive issues to disappear.

The commonsense approach must be managed by influencers who have the positioning and wealth, have a true interest in repairing the health care and medical profession problems, and are functioning outside of the reach of the medical profession oversight, governmental oversight, and Deep State interference.

The perfect story about how this can happen is how a dozen congressmen, financiers, and intelligent intellectuals got together in 1903 and changed the national economic system of our government to The Fed. Read it in the book, The Creature from Jekyll Island.

Curtis G. Graham is a physician.

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