tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post4343609404377064858..comments2023-08-21T02:57:37.362-05:00Comments on Dr. Wes: Physician Burnout and MOC: Treating the Cause, Not the SymptomsDrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-57631352892229857772017-01-06T08:37:17.787-06:002017-01-06T08:37:17.787-06:00Jeff-
MOC is riddled with numerous discriminatory ...Jeff-<br />MOC is riddled with numerous discriminatory practices as you have articulated and will likely become basis for several suits. This program is particularly discriminatory to younger, non-grandfathered physicians.<br /><br />As to your situation, your question should probably be brought to your medical executive committee. I would encourage them to also allow NPBAS credentialing in the DrWeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-69550915012303835802017-01-06T07:47:50.595-06:002017-01-06T07:47:50.595-06:00Since MOC in addition to the 10 year exam is a rel...Since MOC in addition to the 10 year exam is a relatively new requirement for ABIM Cardiovascular disease recertification, is it acceptable for hospitals to now require MOC in addition to the 10 year exam for re-credentialling? <br />Case in point- HCA hospitals medical staff bylaws state that board certification requirements for recredential process of maintaining hospital privileges for Jeff Askewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-37595353509364479712016-12-30T15:00:14.995-06:002016-12-30T15:00:14.995-06:00I was listening to my local NPR and heard an adver...I was listening to my local NPR and heard an advertisement for Ballard Spahr. It sickened me to think of NPR financially associated with the corrupt law firm Ballard Spahr that has heinously persecuted physicians. I'm sorry, but I cancelled my subscription to NPR, because of the financial and political conflicts. Also Ballard Spahr and NPR were obvious political and financial advocates for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-33760386661244584362016-12-28T13:57:38.807-06:002016-12-28T13:57:38.807-06:00Outrageous corruption!
How can physician fees be p...Outrageous corruption!<br />How can physician fees be put into ABMS for-profit enterprises such as "ABMS Solutions" in Atlanta, Georgia? How much is that leased space and overhead costing member boards and physicians who pay for it ultimately. It is outrageous corruption. Where is the DOJ! <br />Furthermore, how can a member of the ABMS be allowed to invest in offshore holdings and get Astounded by this . . .http://drwes.blogspot.com/2016/10/abms-irs-form-990s-and-art-of-dodging.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-7398843308327370142016-12-27T14:46:21.924-06:002016-12-27T14:46:21.924-06:00How much longer can Dr. Baron hang on until he als...How much longer can Dr. Baron hang on until he also leaves ABIM in the rearview mirror, most likely to accept another 'revolving door' position at ACP, NCQA, NQF or one of the other corporate lifeboats for elite professional medical politicians who are hearing footsteps behind them?<br /><br />It's easier to follow the example of his mentors Drs. Cassel and Wachter than to wait until Ed Ricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594005925360252636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-22069852774200145572016-12-27T01:37:22.787-06:002016-12-27T01:37:22.787-06:00Has the ABIM communicated with the AMA House of De...Has the ABIM communicated with the AMA House of Delegates who voted overwhelmingly to end mandatory MOC? Has the ABIM reached out to hundreds of thousands of physicians about their opposition to MOC and the fact that MOC has no scientific basis to back it up only bogus ABIM studies?<br /><br />In September/August of 2016 ABIM hired yet another expensive Vice President to communicate with Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-54936914294349327152016-12-27T01:22:23.217-06:002016-12-27T01:22:23.217-06:00Another unannounced key executive departure from t...Another unannounced key executive departure from the ABIM. December 2016<br /><br />Donna L. Campbell, Director, Human Resources, American Board of Internal Medicine from April 2008 – December 2016 (8 years 9 months.) <br />Campbell also worked as a contractor for ABIM from May 2006 to April 2008 purging the HR department of two senior African American managers gaining control of hiring and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-43762654966792938612016-12-26T14:14:10.986-06:002016-12-26T14:14:10.986-06:00Another troubling aspect of the ABIM's 'di...Another troubling aspect of the ABIM's 'director of investigations': Mannes claims on his resume to have worked for the DC police from around 1999-2009. (Mannes, ABIM 2008-present.) Was Mannes acting on behalf of the DC police when he investigated Dr. Arora and the ABR with Marc Weinstein of Ballard Spahr from 2008-2012? Was the DC police informed of Mannes activities and was he out Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-20885296120145044852016-12-26T13:36:26.366-06:002016-12-26T13:36:26.366-06:00Troubling questions that need to be answered invol...Troubling questions that need to be answered involving ABIM/ABMS conflicts of interest and the testing industry and their full time agent at the ABIM, Ariel Benjamin Mannes<br /><br />At what point did the ABIM and ABMS become actors associated with the FBI, Homeland Security, and the Washington DC metro police? 2008 or earlier? How intertwined are the medical boards with these agencies and the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-8955585385844656562016-12-21T12:11:16.783-06:002016-12-21T12:11:16.783-06:00They live large and remain small inside.They live large and remain small inside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-6782948334148612652016-12-21T12:10:35.718-06:002016-12-21T12:10:35.718-06:00The ABMS and the testing industry declared war on ...The ABMS and the testing industry declared war on patients when they began their covert terror operations against physicians. MOC is part of that terrorism. MOC provides a big part of the funding for the illicit political and financial territory they have taken with the surfeit of cash flow. They want to keep their pockets stuffed when the time-honored boards were voluntary services provided by Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-503073244951478352016-12-20T12:48:23.409-06:002016-12-20T12:48:23.409-06:00More on Cassel's undisclosed conflicts of inte...More on Cassel's undisclosed conflicts of interest<br /><br />The rise of Epic as an EHR was aided by Christine Cassel and her cronies while she served at the ABIM and on the board of Kaiser Foundation and Hospitals Plan(s). Bob Wachter has defended much of the corporate takeover of medicine and the profession that has happened and involving Epic's controversial endorsement by a new CEO More of Cassel's Egregious COIhttp://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/11/kaiser-healthcare-it-meltdown.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-4876318940368475422016-12-20T12:38:28.478-06:002016-12-20T12:38:28.478-06:00The ABIM leadership paid/pay themselves huge sums ...The ABIM leadership paid/pay themselves huge sums for selling-out physicians. <br /><br />This has been going on for decades. Undisclosed relationships with the medical industrial complex (even big tobacco)when made known, showed us just how potent the conflicts of interest were of Thomas Brem, Christine Cassel and Robert Wachter, and so many others.<br /><br />The rise of big tech companies Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-10990322694162024832016-12-20T12:33:47.590-06:002016-12-20T12:33:47.590-06:00Part of what is wrong with medicine is the rapid r...Part of what is wrong with medicine is the rapid rise of corrupt and powerful quality assurance NGO's. This has led medicine in the wrong directions. It has contributed to burnout, loss of faith and force. <br />What is little understood, but sensed by most physicians, is the corporate corruption/influence that has set into the mold. And the mind-numbing amounts of money that the leadership Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-70933667865324087242016-12-20T11:32:19.828-06:002016-12-20T11:32:19.828-06:00The love of being a physician has been "legis...The love of being a physician has been "legislated out," opined a humble doc's blog.<br /><br />"I have a breathtakingly difficult confession to make. A confession, that on its face, seems rather innocuous, but in many ways shakes the foundations of who I always thought I was. How I identify myself."<br /><br />"I no longer love being a physician."<br /><br />&Found this on Wes' twitterhttp://jordan-inmyhumbleopinion.blogspot.com/2016/12/legislated-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-85905707726496847772016-12-20T10:26:44.815-06:002016-12-20T10:26:44.815-06:00Nice hired thug you have there, "dr" bar...<br />Nice hired thug you have there, "dr" baron.<br /><br />So, is the ABIM now publicly attacking dissension using social media via a poorly disguised proxy?<br /><br />Such a high level of proffesionalism you show by doing so, "dr" baron.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-1064708835259834392016-12-20T04:40:36.074-06:002016-12-20T04:40:36.074-06:00Mannes is a person with a known history of violen...Mannes is a person with a known history of violence and abuse to reporters and physicians. I have serious concerns that that 'history' can spring into action at any time. The ABIM and ABMS has an obligation to address this serious issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-87440299933046144032016-12-20T04:36:44.966-06:002016-12-20T04:36:44.966-06:00ABIM's expert opinion on Kurt Eichenwald from ...ABIM's expert opinion on Kurt Eichenwald from 'Director of Investigations' Mannes? <br /><br />Ariel Benjamin Mannes tweeted that Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald is a "dirtbag" who wrote articles about the ABIM (the largest ABMS medical board) so his wife, a Dallas internist, "didn't have to pass her boards." (Quotes and links below.)<br /><br />"A. Official Statement from ABIM's Undisclosed Director of Investigations Ariel Benjamin Mannes?https://twitter.com/PublicSafetySME/status/809954724942348288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-46271830832998785562016-12-18T23:40:52.633-06:002016-12-18T23:40:52.633-06:00Anyone with understanding of the NCQA and their AB...Anyone with understanding of the NCQA and their ABMS associates would agree that Margaret O'Kane has egregious conflicts of interest and is involved in a racketeering scheme. <br />O'Kane considers physicians to be products/items that should be bought and sold with a "warrantee." (M. O'Kane's analogy for MOC.) I find her analogy insulting and appalling. <br />Who is O&#S.A.G.http://www.abms.org/news-events/margaret-e-okane-on-moc/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-90701058074717380142016-12-18T22:06:12.505-06:002016-12-18T22:06:12.505-06:00Also added this for Robert Wachter:
Controversy[e...Also added this for Robert Wachter:<br /><br />Controversy[edit]<br />Wachter was a former Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The ABIM has been forcing physicians to participate in its Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program by lobbying Congress to put provisions into law that require MOC[2]. There is no evidence that the MOC program improves physician performance or Thomas Nielsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888218695044561681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-45849984257054274782016-12-18T21:36:58.556-06:002016-12-18T21:36:58.556-06:00Added this to wikipedia:
Controversy[edit]
O'...Added this to wikipedia:<br /><br />Controversy[edit]<br />O'Kane is a Public Member of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Board of Directors and Executive Committee[11]. In order for insurance companies to be certified by the NCQA, they are required to force physicians to participate in various Maintenance of Certification (MOC) programs. These MOC programs have no evidence Thomas Nielsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888218695044561681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-2485083606258037262016-12-18T15:50:16.594-06:002016-12-18T15:50:16.594-06:00The ABIM became a sewer of deceit under Brem, Farb...The ABIM became a sewer of deceit under Brem, Farber, Benson, Kimball, Cassel, and Baron. Six decades of dirty personal finance and slimy partisan politics. LOLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-11779786414607113922016-12-17T22:52:35.527-06:002016-12-17T22:52:35.527-06:00O'Kane has egregious conflicts of interest! So...O'Kane has egregious conflicts of interest! So does the NCQA she founded and the history of conflicted shady company they keep: Baron, Cassel, Slavitt, Wachter--long list. NCQA is a very clever scam with very creative inventions they designed for growing revenues over a 25-year period.<br /><br />Read the article and comments/references to Wes' BlogSpot below for some insights.<br /><br /MO'K Mother of MOChttp://drwes.blogspot.com/2016/09/who-makes-insurance-companies-require.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+DrWes+(Dr.+Wes)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetchernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-72916329836879666942016-12-17T19:34:52.707-06:002016-12-17T19:34:52.707-06:00We must kick out the stilts that is holding up thi...We must kick out the stilts that is holding up this Rube Goldberg contraption called MOC one at a time. I kicked my stilt out by resigning from the ACC. There is still a forest of poles, sticks, and staves holding this thing up, but it is creaking and getting more rickety. Where can you kick one out?<br /><br />sacredcowonaspit.comThomas Nielsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888218695044561681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-88103980168652001272016-12-17T16:05:40.580-06:002016-12-17T16:05:40.580-06:00She needs to be called out on this. Also, if there...She needs to be called out on this. Also, if there's anyone who knows how to edit a wikipedia page, it would be great if you would take the initiative to edit hers and add a "Conflict of Interest" heading. I tried doing it, but I guess I don't have the proper training/experience. Currently her wikipedia page reads like a press release, and I'm sure it is.<br />https://CyPhyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05900955051256847614noreply@blogger.com