I Might Be Running A Risk By Commenting On This!

This appeared last week:AHPRA ' s made a serious mistake in trying to silence Dr David BergerDr Andrew MillerDr Miller is an anaesthetist in Perth and president of AMA WA.15th July 2022Dr David Berger has been told to pull his head in by the Medical Board of Australia who wants him to undergo a re-education course " in relation to behaving professionally and courteously to colleagues and other practitioners " .His offence, according to the board, was his passionate Tweets, sometimes containing the odd expletive, critiquing public health measures, dopey commentators and the politics of the pandemic.This was the end result of an anonymous notification  — or at least one where the ' name withheld from the registrant '  — made to AHPRADoctors ’ freedom to speak out on fundamental issues on public health, patient safety, ethical medical care should be sacrosanct.Is Dr Berger a medical renegade influencer with a big mouth? Or is he the embodiment of the public health advocacy provisions in the medical board ’s own Good Medical Practice  — code of conduct, which states, under sections 7.3 and 7.4, that we must use our influence to promote health through disease prevention and control?Is AHPRA functioning as a responsible regulator, protecting community confidence in public health. Or is it overstepping the mark into a grey area of censorship of political views that do not align with government policy based on a unidimensional, outdated view of what it means ...
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