Blast from the past, the 2010 WPC

For those attending in Montreal in October, here is how we got here.
I had to read this paragraph twice:

The first WPC in 2006 was a historic gathering of researchers, clinicians, and the patient community. By the standards of that time, it was an extraordinary success. But it was hardly a "Congress." Very few scientists attended any of the patient presentations. There was open hostility between a significant minority of the scientists and patients in attendance. A small group of patients, still hurting after the decision to terminate the clinical trials for the neurotrophic factor GDNF, expressed their anger by disrupting some of the scientific presentations, and some scientists walked out of the meetings, furious at the nerve of patients to question the wisdom of those whose titles included the letters M. D.

Early during the planning of the 2010 Congress, an influential minority of physicians attempted to bar patients altogether from the scientific presentations.....