No, they can't do anything they want if everyone else decides it's not ok. That's the whole point. In Communism you don't own your own time, and you don't own yourself. 'The people' do, which is probably even worse than the State owning you. Especially as any random media scare will make pediatricians hated. What if 'the people' get convinced that black people are best suited for physical labor? What if 'the people' decide Christianity is a counterproductive religion? That is the power which Communism gives to people. There is no choice, there is only what you are ordered to do.