I explain what happened to the independent voice of American Medicine, right down to your local doctor or nurse practitioner and community hospital during Covid? Why did American doctors and hospitals go along with the absurd and counterproductive, draconian measures, the shut downs, and school closures and forced masking and vaccine mandates during Covid? The reason in part is that doctors are no longer self-employed. Almost all doctors today are employed and hence lack independence. They do as they are told. This is a far cry from 30 years ago when I began my practice. Medicine failed its patients, they went along with the crowd, followed the regime narrative, and embraced the fascistic mandates of organized medicine, the CDC, NIH, FDA, the other national level medical organizations, state boards, right down to your local community Hospital and doctor or nurse practitioner. It has been a disgrace. A dark chapter in American medicine.