tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post9004197228786836023..comments2023-08-21T02:57:37.362-05:00Comments on Dr. Wes: My Remarks Before the Ohio Health Committee On MOC®DrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-74713155108586661722017-10-16T04:01:56.788-05:002017-10-16T04:01:56.788-05:00You are judged by the company you keep.
https://b...You are judged by the company you keep.<br /><br />https://books.google.com/books?id=bJycAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT118&lpg=PT118&dq=the+great+tax+robbery+pearson+plc&source=bl&ots=jvAgG20E5F&sig=4DhpvNeIAUF5i9bNM1ln9pqLTKI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQlJaBo_TWAhXJSCYKHWMrAocQ6AEIFTAD#v=onepage&q=the%20great%20tax%20robbery%20pearson%20plc&f=false<br /><br />https://ABMS Pearson PcW GSK@ Home With The Tax Dodgershttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-glaxo-settle-for-34-billion/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-34170568562101723692017-10-15T17:04:37.029-05:002017-10-15T17:04:37.029-05:00“From Courtship To Marriage
A two part series on ...“From Courtship To Marriage <br />A two part series on physicianhospital alignment <br />Part I: Why health reform is driving physicians and hospitals closer together <br />Part II: How physicians and hospitals are creating sustainable relationships<br />“This document combines two reports published by PwC Health Research Institute between December 2010 and April 2011 on physician-hospital Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-88634065303211075282017-10-15T17:02:16.181-05:002017-10-15T17:02:16.181-05:00Mergers and aquistions at PcW involving Richard G ...Mergers and aquistions at PcW involving Richard G Battaglia<br /><br />And here is a bit of propaganda work and example of the kind of advising that Richard G. Battaglia was doing while at PwC. Physicians should not be treated this way where they are deceived over and over while they burn the candle at both ends serving patients. <br /><br />There is no question in my mind that MOC must end and courtship and marriage?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-78573134512486333332017-10-15T16:57:54.842-05:002017-10-15T16:57:54.842-05:00Why the ABIM/ABMS cannot be trusted
More conflict...Why the ABIM/ABMS cannot be trusted<br /><br />More conflicts of interest, transparency and disclosure problems at the ABIM<br /><br />Is Richard Battaglia, ABIM's CMO, the Chief Medical Officer? Chief MOC Officer? Or Chief (PcW ) Merger/Money Officer? <br /><br />Another act of betrayal by the ABIM/ABMS: the evidence<br /><br />ABIM's CEO, executive staff and team of communications A PcW insider at the ABIM/ABMS?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-90636394457553863032017-10-15T16:04:19.009-05:002017-10-15T16:04:19.009-05:00Conundrum,
Transparency is not an ABIM/ABMS attri...Conundrum,<br /><br />Transparency is not an ABIM/ABMS attribute. Consider the following:<br /><br />Why does ABIM fail to disclose that their current Chief Medical Officer is not a practicing physician as they suggest in their background data provided on Richard G Battaflia, MD, but in fact he worked exclusively as a professional financial services advisor to insurers and hospitals for PcW for ABIM's Unlimited Conflicts of Interest?https://www.nydoctorprofile.com/dispatchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-46486706269244074342017-10-14T04:36:03.441-05:002017-10-14T04:36:03.441-05:00ABMS EXECS: Doctors of Spin and Sin?
The federal ...ABMS EXECS: Doctors of Spin and Sin?<br /><br />The federal courts are ripe with discrimination cases and many other surprising complaints against the ABIM and other boards. We see this plainly under the watch of Christine Cassel and Richard Baron and their predecessors. There have been decades worth of examples of egregious conflicts of interest, but nothing happened to any of the ABIM/ABMS The Conundrum of ABMS' Inability to Self-Regulate (et al)http://drwes.blogspot.com/2015/09/why-history-of-specialty-boards-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-61598942534191410862017-10-14T03:33:19.013-05:002017-10-14T03:33:19.013-05:00ABIM 1936 Articles of Incorporation, a mission of ...ABIM 1936 Articles of Incorporation, a mission of fifty years or less <br /><br />If the ABIM/ABMS adhered to the original Articles of Incorporation bylaws, which were honored from 1936 - 1975 on the duration of the corporation would we be in the messy situation we are in today? Read the first four articles below.<br /><br />According to the ABIM's articles of incorporation bylaws the Wisdom of the Founding Physicianshttp://drwes.blogspot.com/2015/09/why-history-of-specialty-boards-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-55736763222992185252017-10-14T01:21:16.551-05:002017-10-14T01:21:16.551-05:00No opinion available yet from judge in AAPS v ABMS...No opinion available yet from judge in AAPS v ABMS per 9/30 memorandum.<br /><br />330 million patients and over 1 million physicians could be adversely affected by a dismissal of this important anti-trust case involving MOC and a physician's right to work and a patient's right to care.Chicagohttps://www.statista.com/topics/1244/physicians/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-34386350845418375992017-10-13T15:47:14.920-05:002017-10-13T15:47:14.920-05:00Bravo!Bravo!Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10841204306003009805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-37575017881428184692017-10-13T05:39:35.622-05:002017-10-13T05:39:35.622-05:00Dr. Fisher,
There are no words to express your on...Dr. Fisher,<br /><br />There are no words to express your ongoing advocacy on this issue. You have made great strides and all of us are indebted for the time and energy you have devoted to addressing this critical issue. Thank you very much.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-40452749884234403892017-10-12T18:56:33.240-05:002017-10-12T18:56:33.240-05:00Bonedoc, "When they say that “the ABIM receiv...Bonedoc, "When they say that “the ABIM receives no industry funding” one has to pause. From all the testimony provided here and elsewhere we can see it is another patent lie." <br /><br />The ABIM/ABMS chairmen and executives from Brem to Baron have had their hands on industry funds and were party to providing documented and undocumented “favors” and "grants" to and from their20/20 viewsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-31606098830176649872017-10-12T17:22:46.424-05:002017-10-12T17:22:46.424-05:00When they say that “the ABIM receives no industry ...When they say that “the ABIM receives no industry funding” one has to pause. From all the testimony provided here and elsewhere we can see it is another patent lie. Bonedocnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-91045115713317312902017-10-11T23:17:53.148-05:002017-10-11T23:17:53.148-05:00The cost of MOC keeps rising
Let's add the le...The cost of MOC keeps rising<br /><br />Let's add the legislative costs to MOC. And the costs of all those federal judges who have had to put up wit the ABIM/ABMS legal shenanigans. How much cost is that in taxpayer $$$? The ABMS and their darn MOC is causing everyone grief from physician to patient to public servant. It is an outrage. <br /><br />And when you look at their tax forms, you seeABMS tangled up in their own MOCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-69472914891006803212017-10-11T19:46:06.326-05:002017-10-11T19:46:06.326-05:00Even non profit organizations are not all equal. ...Even non profit organizations are not all equal. <br /><br />Houses of worship feed the hungry and provide comfort to the homeless. Universities offer free tuition to indigent students. Hospitals take care of the uninsured who are sick. Classy organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provide micro loans, fund vaccine research, redistribute wealth to the Third World. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-30889734842189518392017-10-11T18:23:06.606-05:002017-10-11T18:23:06.606-05:00Wes, my only feedback to you is the lawmakers need...Wes, my only feedback to you is the lawmakers need to be aware that these non profit organizations fuel their deranged agenda off the back of the American Taxpayer. In essence society is funding the ABIM and the ABMS to make the field of medicine more onerous and less available to patients. I was on a recent trip with a well placed AMA HOD member. He also is a well placed member of a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-30868362764849779592017-10-11T18:04:59.476-05:002017-10-11T18:04:59.476-05:00We need the federal government to investigate the ...We need the federal government to investigate the ABMS and their partners for wrongdoing. We need guarantees and legislation which prevents the ABIM/ABMS' from future persecution, involving their violatory acts against personal privacy, acts of discrimination and the trammeling of constitutional rights. Do No Harmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-26590504440221774222017-10-11T17:59:15.754-05:002017-10-11T17:59:15.754-05:00This is incredible document and should be an exhib...This is incredible document and should be an exhibit in a court of law or public assembly and used as damning evidence against the ABIM/ABMS!<br /><br />ABIM's Project Professionalism 1992-1994 (Funded by "cleaned up money transfers" via the ABIM Foundation and ICE from certification and MOC fees.)<br /><br />Exhibit A (for immediate review concerning ABIM corruption, fraud, and BOLD SINGS AND SYMPTOMS OF ABMS HYPOCRISY?: ABIM'S "Project 'Professionalism'"https://medicinainternaucv.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/project-professionalism.pdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-32398354938091097312017-10-11T17:25:31.521-05:002017-10-11T17:25:31.521-05:00Stop MOC
No to MOC and no to ABMS collusion with ...Stop MOC<br /><br />No to MOC and no to ABMS collusion with partner NGOs, insurers and hospital industry lobbyists.<br /><br />No to MOC and no to the restraint of trade. <br /><br />Please investigate ABIM/ABMS and enforce the existing laws protecting Americans from ABMS coercion and injury. <br /><br /> Passing strong anti-moc anti-restraint of trade legislationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-36361666439233439382017-10-11T17:10:57.386-05:002017-10-11T17:10:57.386-05:00ROCK ON, DR. FISHER!ROCK ON, DR. FISHER!Blog Administratorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17867549615532368968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-75208958889618749932017-10-11T17:00:16.981-05:002017-10-11T17:00:16.981-05:00The ABMS is unbelievable. The financial hooliganis...The ABMS is unbelievable. The financial hooliganism they have inflicted on physicians is beyond anything that we can imagine! Using them like cash-cows for self-dealing political agendas and personal wealth building is repugnant; it violates all ethical norms. <br /><br />Such atrocious behavior should be sufficient to justify strong "anti-MOC" legislative relief and draw the ire of Readernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-11931165179010886122017-10-11T16:26:39.701-05:002017-10-11T16:26:39.701-05:00"ABMS with its MOC mandate is a spear in the ..."ABMS with its MOC mandate is a spear in the side and bitter vinegar for all." <br />That's what the founders of the specialty boards, if they were alive today, would say.Gailnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-77049375317574706732017-10-11T16:22:39.694-05:002017-10-11T16:22:39.694-05:00We deeply value all the selfless efforts you and o...We deeply value all the selfless efforts you and others are making to correct the ills stemming from ABMS MOC. We support you and the PPA.MARKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-60525965330354466392017-10-11T14:20:19.790-05:002017-10-11T14:20:19.790-05:00Superb, Dr. Fisher.
You're doing immensely i...Superb, Dr. Fisher. <br /><br />You're doing immensely important work, kudos.<br /><br />Hat tip from Canada.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-27833445192921637122017-10-11T11:21:25.114-05:002017-10-11T11:21:25.114-05:00After reading Dr. Fisher's presentation, the ...After reading Dr. Fisher's presentation, the majority of issues and related facts are laid out with crystal clarity. It is now the Ohio State legislature that is on trial. I implore them to cast their vote honorably. Failure to pass Bill 273 would lead me to one inescapable conclusion: they are for sale and corrupt to the core. W.O.R.M.noreply@blogger.com