Except for the fact that the patient can just go down to road to see any other physician and is only transiently inconvenienced, is not being put on any black list with other physicians, and is not being slandered publicly and deprived of his opportunity to apply hard long earned skills to help people and make a living. I guess except for that, it is the same thing. Why should one person be inconvenienced for something so minor as his fellow citizen’s freedom to run his own business and practice as he sees fit? Some people are just weird in the value they put on this freedom thing.

Specific forms of aggression should be banned and punished: physical assault. Name calling. Overt threats to do harm (other than “threats” to take action through appropriate channels).

“Disruptive” however includes actions which are subjective emotional experiences by the perceiver as much as anything else: “threatening posture” “raised voice” “angry tone of voice” and actions which are sometimes the responsibility of doctors and other hospital personel like breaking rules that don’t fit the specific patient care situation at hand, defying authority when needed for patient care, etc. Not being a “team player” when the team is wrong.

Just one of many ways that the general fascist tendencies of the society are being brought to bear in medicine. Physicians, traditionally the bastion of independent thinking and defiance of authority, must the taught to think and act like corporate zombies like everyone else before health care can be reformed–at least that has long been the belief of those competing for control both in the boardrooms of corporate America and in government.

Health care reform is just a fight over who will be our masters and control the former “doctor-patient” interaction. Either way, they all want us to become obedient slaves.

Indeed Anon 7:24, take it from me (as Obama & company peddle "service" prgrams), when it comes to medicine, whistleblower "protections" in the federal realm are a joke.

Or I should say, a myth.

In terms of "working for change", speaking as someone who has been in those trenches for the better part of a decade, it would be nice if the MSM (now that it is not consumed with an election) to examine/investigate/report on some of these egregious cases (like mine) . . .

. . . i.e. stop sucking up to the powers-that-be. Who knows, they might actually sell some newspapers?

Better to take the harder road and work for change, or vote with your feet.