Dr. Wes

“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”         ― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir On April Fools Day...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) leadership, troubled by the "complex situation" presented by the changes in re-certificat...

It was quite a week for America's practicing physicians.  For months the frustration over the lack of accountability of the American Boa...

Well, well, well, this little blog got a mention in the New York Times Well health care blog last evening in a post entitled "Board C...

If you believe it's not okay to have the corrupt, coercive, and anti-trust ABMS MOC® Medical Registry as part of the Medicare SGR Repla...

From Merrill Goozner at Modern Healthcare Magazine: "The law not only scraps the sustainable growth-rate formula for physician pay...

Maintenance of Certification Money Flow (Click to enlarge) -Wes h/t: @LE44715502 on Twitter

We've been played. Played so badly it would make Goodfellas blush. Remember these words ? "Dear Internal Medicine Community: ...

There is nothing that has unified U.S. physicians more than their distain for the American Board of Medical Specialties' (ABMS) unproven...

Mr. Kurt Eichenwald, a veteran  Newsweek reporter who was  chastized by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) for not mentioning ...

On February 3, 2015, in response to overwhelming physician pushback regarding the Maintenance of Certification program sanctioned by the Am...

After its initial public humiliation , the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) had to re-group and admit they " got it wrong ....

It was like magic, a vote was held in the House of Representatives on the Medicare "Doc Fix" and moments later, my inbox was fille...

Imagine paying $4,675 for a piece of paper. It would make the days of $436 military hammers look pretty cheap, wouldn't it? Now imag...

Dr. Fogel Richard Fogel, MD, President of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), finally released  HRS's current stance in the debate on th...

I woke this morning in a cold sweat as I found myself wrestling with a thought. Am I Big Brother ? The explosion of social media in ou...

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the 2015 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions in San Diego, CA.  This morning I was stru...

Today, Kurt Eichenwald published a report in Newsweek on the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) scandal entitled " The Ugly Ci...

Where will social media be in five years? Will it be dead? Will it be thriving? What will it look like? This was just one question posed t...

With physicians increasingly turning to news aggregators to keep up with medical news and developments, physicians' eyes have become Big...