AHPRA is not ‘silencing doctors’ – there’s a difference between informed disagreement and denigration

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Medical social media has been abuzz with outrage over the alleged ‘silencing’ of doctors by AHPRA.

Much of this has been triggered by the specific case of Dr David Berger: a WA GP who was ordered to undergo training in communication following a series of social media posts that AHPRA said used “emotive and pejorative language”, some of which unfairly denigrated politicians, governments, doctors and pharma companies.