Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD turns his federal health care fraud trial and full acquittal into a guide for doctors, patients, and families trapped in a broken system
EASTON, PA, December 01, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Doctor Not Guilty by Muhamad Aly Rifai MD has surged to the top of Amazon lists, first as the number 1 New Release, then as the number 1 Best Seller in multiple categories, including Mental Health Law, Health Law, and Medical Law and Legislation. For a physician who stood trial facing years in prison, this response sends a clear message. People are hungry for the truth about how the justice system treats healers.
Dr. Rifai is a board-certified psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine physician. He built his career serving vulnerable patients. Then federal agents came to his door. He was indicted on health care fraud charges tied to about one million dollars in alleged losses. After a full jury trial, he was found not guilty on all counts. The government packed up and went home. He had to rebuild his life, his practice, and his name.
Doctor Not Guilty tells that story in detail. The early morning knock. The humiliation of arrest. The months of silence under a gag of fear. The grinding pressure to plead guilty. The decision to go to trial. The moment the jury returned and said two words that changed everything. Not Guilty.
The book also walks readers through how such prosecutions happen. How billing disagreements turn into felony indictments. How "expert" witnesses use guidelines and coding rules in ways that many front-line clinicians would not recognize. How the trial penalty and mandatory minimums coerce pleas. How families, staff, and patients pay the price when a doctor becomes a target.
"This was not only about me," Dr. Rifai says in the book. "This was about every doctor who sees a patient, writes a note, and wonders if a prosecutor will one day read that note in a courtroom. I wrote Doctor Not Guilty so no physician feels alone the way I did."
Doctor Not Guilty is part memoir, part legal case study, and part survival manual. The book gives physicians concrete steps to protect themselves before trouble starts. It explains how to choose counsel, how to respond when agents appear, and how to cope with the psychological trauma of being accused by your own government. It also offers practical advice to patients and families who watch their doctor walk into a courtroom instead of an exam room.
Readers also see the human side of a federal case. A father trying to be present for his children while under indictment. A clinician who still shows up for patients while facing the possibility of prison. A refugee from war who finds himself in another kind of war, this time in an American courtroom.
The strong reception on Amazon shows that this story resonates far beyond one case. By reaching number 1 Best Seller status in Mental Health Law, Health Law, and related categories, Doctor Not Guilty has joined the national conversation about overcriminalization in health care.
"The government lost at trial," Dr. Rifai says. "But the process had already punished my family, my staff, and my patients. The verdict cleared my name. The book explains how this happened and why the system must change. My goal is not revenge. My goal is reform."
Doctor Not Guilty is a call to action. For physicians, it is a warning and a roadmap. For lawyers and policymakers, it is a case study in how aggressive prosecutions can distort justice. For the public, it is a reminder that when a doctor is taken away in handcuffs, an entire community loses access to care.
The book is available now in Kindle and print formats on Amazon.
Dr. Muhamad Aly Rifai is a multi-board certified psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine physician. He is the founder of Blue Mountain Psychiatry in Pennsylvania and a longtime advocate for patients and professionals caught at the intersection of medicine and law. As a former federal criminal defendant who went to trial and was fully acquitted, he now speaks and writes about due process, physician rights, and the urgent need to Make America Healthy Again through fair and rational enforcement. Doctor Not Guilty is his first book in this series on medicine, justice, and hope.
Website: https://doctornotguilty.com
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