Dr 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 AHPRA

Doctors’ freedom to speak out on fundamental issues on public health, patient safety, ethical medical care should be sacrosanct.