In California, it's not just the hospitals, but the medical boards whose certification is required to practice medicine, by law, in the State. It's the same problem as with restaurants: because they require a business license to stay open, the government regulators have insane power simply by defining requirements for the business license. An unelected bureaucrat was able to shut down businesses. The Legislature wrote laws some time ago to review doctor's exemptions for vaccines and put their license at risk based on audits. Same for prescribing pain killers.

The solution is to tear all that bureaucracy down to the ground. It was weaponized against the people, it has to go.