I am a relative newbie to the forum, but my observation of the banning of Andrechuck is that he banned himself. Bert had no choice but to do what was necessary for the good of the forum. We live in a society where free speech is emulated, but this forum has, I think, what is missing in most medical communities, collegial respect and a willingness to help each other survive the changing face of medicine. I suspect if each of us look at our local medical communities, we can all think of examples of one multispecialty group or hospital owned group trying to out wit and contract with the private payers to run the other one to the ground. I am sick of the antics of doctors beating up on other doctors, when in my opinion it is not necessary but self induced most of the time.
It is a sad day when something like this happens, but if I were the administrator (Bert), I would rather p!ss off Andrechuck than be p!ssed off at myself for not doing anything about it.
