 The invitation was subsequently retracted.In September 2010 Gaylord forwarded a letter to physicians purporting that Speaker Gingrich had selected them as a 2010 "Champion of Medicine" with an invitation to an awards dinner to be held in Washington in November.This letter was a broadside aimed at all physicians, regardless of political persuasion and regardless of the fact that they might not have done anything meritorious in the past two years, as the letter suggests.