Laconia is very close to home, the reason we "picked" it for our primary care 15 years ago. I have had great interactions with my physicians at Laconia Clinic. Dr. Arnold Miller was "asked" to leave early when he was retiring in December — I still do not have an orthopedist. Dr. Lawrence Rush recommended Dr. Gurvinder Bali as very good — which I found was true. Now, they've fired him. Because they are going in a different direction? Did they just take over Laconia as a tax write-off, regardless of the people it would impact? He had 1,400 patients. Dr. Daniel Kallmerten had 1,500. Do we mean nothing to the community? I worked for 10 years in a hospital in Laurel, Maryland, from county-owned to private. We went through the accreditation process during the reorg, no physicians were fired. Laurel stood at the intersection of Baltimore and D.C., firing a physician would have been financial suicide. Having and maintaining a hospital locally is important to we residents here; the way this "manage"ment team is operating, they'll be lucky to keep any of the patients.