Dr. Wes

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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

What Gives?

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WHAT GIVES the American Board of Internal Medicine the ability to take away years of schooling, mountains of prior testing, sleepless nig...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

A Case Study in the Wrong Way to Fix Clinician Burnout

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Asking the system to fix the system in regards to physician and nursing burnout is like asking the fox to watch the henhouse. They have no...
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Saturday, October 12, 2019

Plaintiffs to Appeal ABIM Class-Action Lawsuit in Full

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With the time to amend the earlier class action antitrust and racketeering lawsuit against the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) p...
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Saturday, October 05, 2019

You Know There's a Problem with MOC When...

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... yet another antitrust lawsuit is filed against ANOTHER American Board of Medical Specialties' member board.  This time, the American...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Why Working Physicians Deserve Their Day in Court

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Ask any physician who shares 24-hour call with his colleagues: what time is the worst time to get called into the hospital? Most will tell y...
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Sunday, September 29, 2019

Some Thoughts on the Recent ABIM Lawsuit Ruling

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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax After research...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

Federal Judge Dismisses MOC Class-Action Lawsuit, For Now

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On 26 September 2019, a Pennsylvania judge has dismissed the current claims filed by the four internists challenging ABIM’s Maintenance of C...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

ABMS's Vision: Doubling Down on MOC

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Since the American Board of Medical Specialties' (ABMS) "Vision Commission" issued its corporate white-paper " final repo...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

How ABIM's MOC Product Ends Physician Careers

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From Medical Economics : Mark Lopatin, MD, has been a vocal opponent of ABIM’s MOC process for several years, but says that these new option...
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Friday, September 20, 2019

When the Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

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"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." - Aristole Since May 2018, over 1,600 physicians have made over 1900 contribu...
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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Plaintiff Lawyer Explains ABMS Medical Board Lawsuits

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This past Saturday, A Zoom video conference sponsored by Citizen Health.io was held with the members of Practicing Physicians of America...
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Thursday, August 29, 2019

American Board of Emergency Medicine Resorts to Adhesion Contract to Limit Its Liability and Legal Costs

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A question posed recently by a physician on Facebook: Can anyone tell me if this is legal? I have to check the American Board of Emergency ...
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ACP Supports ABIM Plans for More Continuous Certification

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Yesterday, the American College of Physicians (ACP) issued a press release in support of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABI...
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Sunday, August 25, 2019

Assuring Longitudinal Physician Exploitation and Burnout

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ABIM Email Notification His day started at 07:15 AM with two planned atrial fibrillation ablation procedures and an implantable cardiac ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019

MOC Issue Embroils EP Community

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After I circulated my fund-raising video two weeks ago to the Electrophysiology Community via the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) closed message...
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Thursday, August 01, 2019

AntiMOC Lawsuit Update

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As the summer winds on, I have been approached by more and more people who would like an update on where the litigation filed against the ...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Why the U.S. Specialty Boards Were Sued and Why Those Lawsuits Are Important

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I hope every working U.S. physician takes 9 minutes to view this video on why the lawsuits against  the American Board of Medical Specialtie...
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Friday, July 05, 2019

Subject of Major Lawsuit, ABIM Struggles to Fill Positions

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Seventy-three positions are needed for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) to fulfill "a new governance structure," the...
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Monday, July 01, 2019

MOC's Incredible Price Growth

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The chart above by Mark J. Perry, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and professor of economics and finance at the University o...
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Friday, June 28, 2019

The ABIM Tax Man Commeth... Again

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Yesterday, lots of busy internists received email notices of another $140 check due to the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). Physi...
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DrWes
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC is a board certified internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist (doctor specializing in heart rhythm disorders) practicing at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL, USA and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He is an unpaid co-founder of Practicing Physicians of America, a 501c6 non-profit business league for working physicians. He entered the blog-o-sphere in November, 2005. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this blog are strictly the those of the author(s) and should not be construed as the opinion(s) or policy(ies) of NorthShore University HealthSystem, nor recommendations for your care or anyone else's. Please seek professional guidance instead.
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