This is the issue:

"However, that is separate from the heart of the question related to 1099s;

My question is more directly related to paying MDs through 1099s"

That isn't the point of this forum. Your question should be more along the lines of: I am trying to prepare my client's 990 or 1120 and have a question regarding form X, lines y-z.

Think of it as, you walked into a bar, and you like ballet, but this bar is all about country music. You wouldn't stand there to discuss ballet. You would go to the right place for what you need.

You don't seem to be using one of Intuit's ProSeries professional tax preparation program. You stumbled onto a product-specific peer user group forum, and seem to be asking personal and direct questions regarding tax regulations as applicable to your operations.

Did you mean to ask the TurboTax people? They can be found at this other link:

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/discussions/discussion/03/302