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Monday, June 20, 2022

Antitrust 101: How to Build Medical Monopolies by Discrediting U.S. Physicians

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Recently, there have been a rash of initiatives by unaccountable non-profit physician credentialing organizations ( Federation of State Medi...
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Friday, February 25, 2022

What Entity or Person Serves As ABIM's "Restricted" Contributors?

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 In late 2018 through 2020, The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) was involved in a class action antitrust lawsuit for claims of i...
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Monday, February 14, 2022

Can There Ever Be a "Kinder and Gentler" MOC?

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It has been a long time since I have written anything concerning the American Board of Medical Specialties' (ABMS) Maintenance of Certif...
Monday, December 06, 2021

The Danger and Hypocrisy of Physician Censorship

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In late July 2021, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), a non-profit self-selected lobbying organization for US state medical boar...
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Monday, March 01, 2021

The Courts Speak: Internists to Be Boarded to Death

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It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I must announce that on Thursday this past week, the United States 3rd Circuit Court of Ap...
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Thursday, February 18, 2021

ABIM and Its Washington Lobbyists

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The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that certifies "internists and (medical) subspeci...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Is ABIM Ending Its "Knowledge Check-In" MOC® Pathway?

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The following (redacted) email was received from Morgan Allen, Customer Relationship Advocate at the American Board of Internal Medicine (AB...
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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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