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Wednesday, May 03, 2023

ABMS Maintenance of Certification – Its Origins, Realities, and Implications for Medicine – Part II

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This piece first appeared on Sensible Med on 5/3/2023. The Legal Challenges to ABMS Maintenance of Certification ABMS board certificatio...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

ABMS Maintenance of Certification – Its Origins, Realities, and Implications for Medicine – Part I

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This piece first appeared on Sensible Med on 4/26/2023. If you’re a board-certified internist, you’re probably quite familiar with the con...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

MOC and the Demise of CME

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With the ongoing forcing of participation in Maintenance of Certification (MOC) of US physicians by the American Board of Medical Specialtie...
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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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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