tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post7557133195333025492..comments2023-08-21T02:57:37.362-05:00Comments on Dr. Wes: Subject of Major Lawsuit, ABIM Struggles to Fill PositionsDrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-39309703789958785142019-07-30T03:14:11.305-05:002019-07-30T03:14:11.305-05:00Physicians and patients are becoming perfect sheep...Physicians and patients are becoming perfect sheep. <br /><br />Profession and lives jeopardized by insouciance, passivity and sleep.<br />$$$ "World Economic Forum" $$$https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/why-ai-will-make-healthcare-personal/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-75364111814609333542019-07-22T12:58:24.038-05:002019-07-22T12:58:24.038-05:00AnonymousSun Jul 21, 11:37:00 AM CDT
"The on...AnonymousSun Jul 21, 11:37:00 AM CDT<br /><br />"The only way to transform the ABIM is to painfully engage it as an insider. Take Wes' update for what it's worth. Everyone should apply for these open positions. Throw the bums out."<br /><br />I disagree. Only route is to refuse MOC, let your faux ABMS certification lapse, and practice unbound out of network with insurers at a Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880789809815010130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-1193452870854954452019-07-21T17:01:56.356-05:002019-07-21T17:01:56.356-05:00Foxes In the Henhouse
https://www.prnewswire.com/...Foxes In the Henhouse<br /><br />https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/onlyboth-discovers-unique-comparative-improvement-insights-across-us-hospitals-300832339.html<br /><br />https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/qualitymeasures/index.htmlNQF ADVANTAGE PLUShttps://www.benchmine.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-71537358981300824612019-07-21T16:33:07.260-05:002019-07-21T16:33:07.260-05:00People Who Are Into Politics and Profiteering From...People Who Are Into Politics and Profiteering From It <br /><br />https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/onlyboth-inc-launches-new-hospital-benchmarking-engine-300704941.html<br /><br />Christine Cassel and the Marketing of Quality (Consumer Friendly Data Points)<br /><br />"Having been deeply entrenched in the quality of care movement over the last two decades, I see how important OnlyBoth and the Benchmine of Publlc and Private Data Collection/Sharing/Analysishttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quality-care-expert-christine-k-cassel-md-macp-joins-onlyboth-inc-leadership-team-in-advisory-role-300764929.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-28463525751597227842019-07-21T16:16:40.211-05:002019-07-21T16:16:40.211-05:00Certifiably corrupt for life and thumbing their no...Certifiably corrupt for life and thumbing their noses at us from their corporate campuses.<br />Certification is for the masses working in the trenches and certainly not them!Premier Politicianshttps://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/dr-christine-cassel-resigns-from-kaiser-premier-boards-amid-conflict-of-interest-controversy.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-22209607562318252282019-07-21T16:11:10.916-05:002019-07-21T16:11:10.916-05:00Corporate proxies working for the elites and not t...Corporate proxies working for the elites and not the public's well being.Robber Baron's "of the Profession"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quality-care-expert-christine-k-cassel-md-macp-joins-onlyboth-inc-leadership-team-in-advisory-role-300764929.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-12183603728296804312019-07-21T16:06:31.863-05:002019-07-21T16:06:31.863-05:00"Corporate baggers" living large at our ..."Corporate baggers" living large at our expense. <br /><br />Hardly the bum's modus operandi to buy condos, offshore millions to the Cayman's, and gift the former CEO of the ABIM over 1.7 million in her last year. Big money for Chris Cassel and now Rich Baron to pratice "partisan politics" in DC and appoint/groom their own unaccountable cadre of corrupt professional ABMS MOCSTERShttps://www.propublica.org/article/payments-to-ceo-raise-new-conflicts-at-top-health-quality-groupnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-83621722771070822872019-07-21T11:37:14.672-05:002019-07-21T11:37:14.672-05:00The only way to transform the ABIM is to painfully...The only way to transform the ABIM is to painfully engage it as an insider. Take Wes' update for what it's worth. Everyone should apply for these open positions. Throw the bums out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-48329052295547059352019-07-20T00:44:35.434-05:002019-07-20T00:44:35.434-05:00The ABIM/ABMS has helped create a new vulnerable p...The ABIM/ABMS has helped create a new vulnerable population in the United States. Physicians.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_K._CasselAtticus Finchhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Baron_(physician)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-49320477865786738622019-07-13T19:59:04.835-05:002019-07-13T19:59:04.835-05:00Even on their commercial site when making email in...Even on their commercial site when making email inquiries, it is rare to get a response from them. Why is that? This lack of response goes for requests concerning personal account related matters as well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-51201868568143309192019-07-13T17:43:59.743-05:002019-07-13T17:43:59.743-05:00Many people report being blocked from making comme... <br />Many people report being blocked from making comments on ABIM/ABIMF's social media. That's a suicidal decision on their part as it goes against theri recent claims of transparency and being a "transformed" organization. Blocking is another aspect of controlling the narrative through propaganda, obfuscation, disinformation and stonewalling. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-17202469413992017642019-07-11T21:11:35.058-05:002019-07-11T21:11:35.058-05:00More double speak from the ABIM's "peripa...More double speak from the ABIM's "peripatetic CEO" (and President)<br /><br />Brace yourself for more BS from the ABIM's Dr. Baron on "trust". After a recent TedTalk (Windy City) and Aspen Ideas Festival in CO., this time other cronies are publishing their disinformation campaign/diversion tactics in the NEJM. July 11, 2019, Page 182. <br /><br />After systematically Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-14600858979733610992019-07-11T03:47:17.271-05:002019-07-11T03:47:17.271-05:00Busing and the ABIM (Your MOC fees at work in the ...Busing and the ABIM (Your MOC fees at work in the high rent district of Philly!)<br /><br />While physicians are being marched to the back of the bus politically and financially via MOC mandates, executives at the ABIM choose luxury over cost savings. More examples of waste, elitism, and fuzzy math entries on their tax forms. <br /><br />ABIM must be hustling to get their muddled tax Executive Parking on Walnut Street?https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/federal-state-local-governments/qualified-parking-fringe-benefitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-22172753623444755502019-07-10T05:28:55.981-05:002019-07-10T05:28:55.981-05:00Minuteman: The First Amendment protects free speec...Minuteman: The First Amendment protects free speech only from restriction/interference by the government. Speakers have no First Amendment protection of free speech against private corporations, such as ABIM. Yet another reason why self-appointed, unelected, unaccountable organizations like ABIM should never hold this degree of control over physicians and the public.Ed Ricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594005925360252636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-66779474561170105132019-07-10T03:31:33.600-05:002019-07-10T03:31:33.600-05:00The ABIM and ABIM Foundation should stop blocking ...The ABIM and ABIM Foundation should stop blocking comments on their public media sites. Or they may be getting lawsuits for violating freedom of speech. minutemanhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-twitter-first-amendment.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-84166282724531594832019-07-07T13:47:56.476-05:002019-07-07T13:47:56.476-05:00The ABMS is the Enron of US healthcare and is now ...The ABMS is the Enron of US healthcare and is now perceived to be disreputable and fraudulent by all except its dwindling band of die hard shill supporters. As discovery proceeds in the handful of lawsuits with more on the way its structural supports will weaken with the resulting collapse of this rotten edifice being sudden. Never again can US physicians allow their "governance" to Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880789809815010130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-39296610150660591882019-07-07T04:14:54.407-05:002019-07-07T04:14:54.407-05:00The ABIM is a puppet theater. MOC is shadow play f...The ABIM is a puppet theater. MOC is shadow play full of ABMS propaganda (and fabricated political BS) to make money for themselves and some of the most lucrative parts of the medical industrial complex they serve. <br /><br />For the ABMS, physicians and patients are there, not to be served (benefited/protected), but rather to be used for their own selfish purposes. Any 8-year-old child could Who's Afraid of the ABIM? (ABMS)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCmFWJjc4RAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-70169889149055055622019-07-06T10:31:06.056-05:002019-07-06T10:31:06.056-05:00ABIM under Dr. Baron is caught in a self designed ...ABIM under Dr. Baron is caught in a self designed trap. It demands the physicians to embrace transparency, austerity, and intellectual honesty. Yet its existential paradigm is hugely oxymoronic and rife with obvious hypocrisy. ABIM desperately deploys a double standard. The standard it uses for itself embraces monetary waste, outright lies and thuggish behavior. It has the audacity to commandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-31700999923169670752019-07-05T20:37:37.703-05:002019-07-05T20:37:37.703-05:00In 1986 and 1987 ABIM executives and their "g...In 1986 and 1987 ABIM executives and their "governance structure: engaged in closed meetings about the creation of MOC (maintenance of certification) behind the backs of the public and physicians. The purpose was to pad revenues/profits and increase executive compensation.<br />But where would they put all those new profits? So, in 1989 they secretly created a "foundation" to Lessons from historyhttps://www.csmonitor.com/1988/1223/adrex.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-5918558664673295622019-07-05T17:42:30.317-05:002019-07-05T17:42:30.317-05:00The separate US District Court actions of Kenney e...The separate US District Court actions of Kenney et al v. ABIM and Salas Rushford v. ABIM are the only “new governance structures” that ABIM needs. No new salaried positions with obscene compensation and retirement plans for ABIM insiders’ spouses, cousins, brothers-in-law, neighbors, fellow country club members or other cronies requiring obligatory fee increases will be necessary.Ed Ricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594005925360252636noreply@blogger.com