tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post3429117568743340524..comments2023-08-21T02:57:37.362-05:00Comments on Dr. Wes: Antitrust Suit Against AOA Proceeds to Discovery Phase in New Jersey DrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-19176040664780662832017-06-30T14:12:58.582-05:002017-06-30T14:12:58.582-05:00Putting "respectable racketeers" ABMS an...Putting "respectable racketeers" ABMS and AOA under the scope<br /><br />It's not just about anti-trust it is also about academic, personal and public trust.<br /><br />How about getting all of their testing processes including the copyrighting of scientific knowledge held up to the light of legal, scientific and public scrutiny? <br /><br />We do not and cannot trust them.<br /><brMoral compass versus the AOA and ABMShttps://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/ass%E2%80%99n-medcolls-Cuomo-2dcir1991.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-66166036474870990432017-06-28T08:57:59.341-05:002017-06-28T08:57:59.341-05:00Dr. Cohen has smartly never wasted his time on bei...Dr. Cohen has smartly never wasted his time on being a MOCademician. <br />He is grandfathered with an active certificate in internal medicine.<br /><br />Jordan let ABIM take his critical care certification away after not re-certifying. But ABIM at least shows on their website the original date of certification--at this point anyway. <br />That may change, we just don't know what they are A Great Academicianhttp://www.abim.org/verify-physician/Cohen-Jordan-quKqHye!y2U=.aspxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-70439089633315168482017-06-28T06:07:19.466-05:002017-06-28T06:07:19.466-05:00Will the real AMA please stand up
AMERICAN MEDICA...Will the real AMA please stand up<br /><br />AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE<br />PAC - QUALIFIED - LOBBYIST/REGISTRANT PAC ID: C00000422<br /><br />TOTAL RECEIPTS $2,114,478.16 [2015-2016]<br />TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS $2,099,958.16<br />Total individual contributions $2,099,958.16<br />Itemized individual contributions $1,330,350.37<br />Unitemized individual contributions $AMA Has Plenty of Firepower to Help End Coerced MOChttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00000422/?cycle=2016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-36483747658781690372017-06-28T05:08:42.086-05:002017-06-28T05:08:42.086-05:00Moving on, thinking ahead
The irony of it! 999 E ...Moving on, thinking ahead<br /><br />The irony of it! 999 E Street is no longer the home of the AMA in DC.<br />999 E Street is now the Federal Elections Commission and Hard Rock Cafe.<br /><br />Who will move into the offices of the ABMS in Chicago when they're just a memory? <br />The DoJ? Ben and Jerry's? The Practicing Physicians of America?FEC Moves in on the AMAhttps://beta.fec.gov/data/committee/C70001847/?tab=spending&cycle=2014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-50449867648610762292017-06-28T04:54:28.796-05:002017-06-28T04:54:28.796-05:00From Merry-Land to the AMA to the Federal Election...From Merry-Land to the AMA to the Federal Elections Commission and Hard Rock Cafe <br /><br />"Take Five" and learn about history of jazz music and burlesque in DC . . . <br />and then along came the AMA and the Hard Rock Cafe!<br /><br />"Douglas Development purchased 999 E Street N.W.<br />Price: $83,500,000<br />Seller: The Bluestone Group, NY,NY<br />Building: 174,072 Sf<br />All Things Must Pass - MOC Has Seen Its Last Clienthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/06/24/merry-land-fades-into-the-night/2e55b865-b18d-4766-962f-39f13ae25060/?utm_term=.9af19a81de98noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-15108600605049787072017-06-28T04:14:46.506-05:002017-06-28T04:14:46.506-05:00Meanwhile in Chicago the ABMS mulls their options ...Meanwhile in Chicago the ABMS mulls their options (choosing poorly)<br /><br />The American Board of Medical Specialties still does not get it, that times are changing and people have awakened to their thuggery and well-heeled polished scams. <br /><br />Really to use a felon to protect their racket and attack physicians so ruthlessly! Pure deceit and evil. Violating thousands of innocent people,'T'http://www.abms.org/news-events/response-to-the-american-medical-association-policy-on-secure-recertification-exam/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-52652546291025372602017-06-28T04:07:50.519-05:002017-06-28T04:07:50.519-05:00Read the documents and look at the facts involving...Read the documents and look at the facts involving the AOA's assault on consumers and blatant acts of public fraud. Did I not see racketeering in the complaint? <br /><br />And what about price fixing and rigging the "MOC markets" in cahoots with the ABMS? Where is the DoJ?<br /><br />Regardless of what the AOA attorneys do, the only question remains will the AOA settle and make Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-88505909355569513002017-06-26T19:19:28.308-05:002017-06-26T19:19:28.308-05:00Who always pays in the end
Adam Singer as "c...Who always pays in the end<br /><br />Adam Singer as "corporate innovator" developed real-time monitoring of his Hospitalists. Every hour and minute accounted for. Bob Wachter as innovator and politico "father of the hosptialist movement was fascinated and drawn to the this new tech tool and lucrative company. <br /><br />An important point has never been brought out in this case. Lost in the Chicago Translationhttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/government-intervenes-false-claims-lawsuit-against-ipc-hospitalist-co-inc-allegingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-64837737764800617802017-06-26T19:06:57.377-05:002017-06-26T19:06:57.377-05:00Lost in the Chicago Translation
Even ABMS' po...Lost in the Chicago Translation<br /><br />Even ABMS' political spokesperson Bob Wachter, former ABIM chairman and author of more than one ABMS-biased and corporate sponsored blog, trivialized the AAPS and categorized anyone who opposes the ABMS (ABIM) as somehow marginal people when he called the AAPS members to be part of a "fringe group" in America. Wachter implied that his What about Bob and IPC The Hospitalist?https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/healthcare-service-provider-pay-60-million-settle-medicare-and-medicaid-false-claims-actnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-46679088169731872162017-06-26T17:29:32.411-05:002017-06-26T17:29:32.411-05:00Glad to see this important anti-trust case moving ...Glad to see this important anti-trust case moving forward to the discovery phase. In light of the fact that the suit will continue in New Jersey and not in Chicago, shows that this NJ judge has exercised fairness to the injured parties--the AOA-member plaintiff physicians in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who are forced into contract with the AOA through unfair business practices. This will remove Timothynoreply@blogger.com