Physician Plaintiffs Counter ABIM's Motion to Dismiss
Following the Dec 6 2018 filing of a class action antitrust lawsuit against the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) by four internal medicine physicians (that was later amended to include fraud, RICO and unjust enrichment claims), the ABIM filed a motion to dismiss the physicians' Complain t. Much of their argument hinged on the ABIM's supposition that
"... plaintiffs cannot establish (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - May 1, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs
The Powerful Counterrevolutionaries
There's an amazing thread developing on Doug Farango's Authentic Medicine blog post titled "The AAFP Loves the ABFM and Sleeps Right Alone Side Them." It started with Elizabeth Baxley's "Fact Check" comment suggesting the Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA) program was not another version of Maintenance of Certification (MOC). Dr. Baxley failed to disclose she served on (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 14, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs
Physicians Are Eagles Who Believe They Are Chickens
Chicken or Eagle?
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There are 800,000 physicians in America and more than 80% believe the Maintenance of Certification process, known as MOC, has no clinical value for patients. For the first time in the history of our profession, physicians have a fighting chance to topple a Goliath-esque organization, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs
Physicians Are Eagles Who Believe They Are Chickens
Chicken or Eagle?
Image by Wes Fisher MD
(Click to enlarge)
There are 800,000 physicians in America and more than 80% believe the Maintenance of Certification process, known as MOC, has no clinical value for patients. For the first time in the history of our profession, physicians have a fightin g chance to topple a Goliath-esque organization, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs
Schulman: End This Maddening Waste of Time for Rhode Island Doctors
From an opinion piece published earlier by internist Howard Schulman, MD in the Rhode Island Providence Journal: "I am writing to give the physicians ’ perspective on bill H5247/S301 that gives physicians a choice, by medical staff vote, on “maintenance of certification.” (MOC) The organization that sells this certification says it is voluntary, but in fact, for most physicians, is mandatory. (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 10, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs
What Do Working Cardiologists Really Think About the ACC's CMP Pathway?
What do US cardiologists and electrophysiologists REALLY think about the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) heavily-promoted collaboration with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) to create their "Continuous Maintenance Pathway" (CMP) for continually maintaining their ABIM board certification?
That's a question I wanted to know, so I helped create a quick 5-minute survey on the (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 2, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Tags: ABIM ACC American Board of Internal Medicine American College of Cardiology Continuous Certification Continuous Maintenance Pathway Maintenance of Certification MOC Source Type: blogs
From MOC to CC: Neurosurgeons Fed Hopium
Even the physicians who we trust to do brain surgery can't be trusted to determine their own education or the skills they need to dive into a patient's skull. Instead, the AANS Neurosurgeon says they need is a "paradigm shift" to pay the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS) much higher fees and do meaningless bureaucratic busywork annually:"Obviously, by moving from a 10-year process to (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - April 1, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs
Physician's Week
William Osler
"When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them."
"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
"The philosophies of one age have become the absur dities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - March 27, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs
Physician's Week
William Osler
"When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them."
"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - March 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs
Suddenly, Some Specialty Societies Might Be Listening
From the American College of Radiology blog:
"In response to a recent request from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the (American College of Radiology) ACR created a work group to comment on a report on the status of (Maintenance of Certification) MOC® across all specialties. That group worked tirelessly over the winter hol idays to prepare a detailed comment letter (ed. note: a (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - March 24, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs
