Who cares--I mean, really, who does?

   When I recently tried to schedule an appointment with one of my eye doctors, the office said he had left the practice. Rather suddenly, it seems.  It turns out that he, a partner there, is suing the other 3 partners.
    After Dr. Weiner joined the group, in 2012, he set up a protocol to treat glaucoma.  As it turned out, that protocol drew too much of the patient-care away from the others, and while Dr. W. was benefitting, the others were losing income. So they had a meeting inducing him to sign an agreement to stifle his protocol. Or else. Evidently he did so, but then filed an addendum alleging patient vision would suffer without his protocol. So the other 3 partners fired him.  And he retaliated with a lawsuit.
    He contends that without his protocol, the vision of patients will suffer, and he is holding on to some of the patients' eye images, apparently to prove his point, maybe in court if it comes to that. He has refused requests to return the images to the practice.
    I have had, over the years, extensive treatments there, including at least 6 surgeries and prescriptions for conditions, including the one at issue here. Which makes me wonder how much of my treatment is a matter of who adopts what protocols to whose financial advantage.  And where are all the images of my eyes?