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How doctors lost it: first the money, then the authority, now the thinking
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Fusion42 · 16 August 2026 · Fusion42 review
The article analyses the progressive loss of physician autonomy in the US healthcare system, focusing on financial, administrative, and intellectual sovereignty, exacerbated by AI implementation decisions favouring health system purchasers over doctors.
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Doctors still independent face a narrowing window to protect how they use AI in practice before regulation and system design fully dictate their clinical decisions. You must act now to maintain clinical authorship or risk AI replacing core decision-making roles.
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