tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post3620880237698807096..comments2023-08-21T02:57:37.362-05:00Comments on Dr. Wes: Medicare SGR Replacement Bill: "An Unwarranted Role of Medical Specialty Boards"DrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-27993499348321551582015-04-12T14:16:13.353-05:002015-04-12T14:16:13.353-05:00Congress can't model laws anymore..period and ...Congress can't model laws anymore..period and will they fund the former agency "Office of Technology Assessment" that used to be around to help them with technology efforts..no! What's up with that? I was hoping that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter might have some power of persuasion as he worked for the agency at one time when it was funded and now look where he's at:)<brMedical Quackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443589277651479846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-51275625013379036502015-04-12T12:44:22.031-05:002015-04-12T12:44:22.031-05:00As an interventional cardiologist, I have decided ...As an interventional cardiologist, I have decided NOT to place carotid stents, NOT to perform TAVR, NOT to perform alcohol septal ablation, NOT to perform ASD closure, NOT to perform mitral clips, NOT to perform mitral or aortic balloon valvuloplasty; however, every ten years I must become an expert in all these procedures that I have decided to avoid such that they are concentrated in a small Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-5039990485152348552015-04-12T11:30:58.443-05:002015-04-12T11:30:58.443-05:00This is the icing on the cake. I have "volunt...This is the icing on the cake. I have "voluntarily" certified in Internal Medicine twice and twice "involuntarily" in Geriatrics.<br />I am appalled by the revelations in this blog and in multiple national publications of the abandonment of its members by not only the ABIM,AMA and the American College of Physicians.<br />An AMA response on this blog site mocked a physician Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-66222967152847468132015-04-12T08:08:33.488-05:002015-04-12T08:08:33.488-05:00Illuminati -
The AMA is a complicit bystander wh...Illuminati - <br /><br />The AMA is a complicit bystander who is using their lawyers to defend the ABMS in the lawsuit against them.DrWeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-77798241764470214312015-04-12T06:22:39.333-05:002015-04-12T06:22:39.333-05:00Dr. West, what is the role of the AMA in all this?...Dr. West, what is the role of the AMA in all this? I'm retired but would have remained in the AMA if they had not helped Obamacare along with the raid on the Medicare piggy bank. Are they still working on the wrong side?Illuninatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11423190828865695564noreply@blogger.com