Dr. Wes

Shhhh. The public wasn't supposed to know. Neither was the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to the American Board of Inte...

Yesterday, Newsweek Pulitzer-prize finalist and reporter Kurt Eichenwald pulled back the curtain  on the Great and Powerful Oz of medical ...

Hi boys and girls!  My name is Christine Casell, MD.  I was once the President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the ABI...

"… This debate addresses whether ABIM's Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program contributes meaningfully to the practice of qua...

Paul Tierstein, MD and Eric Topol, MD critically review the evidence base for the American Board of Internal Medicine's Maintenance of C...

Getting ready for the 2015 Heart Rhythm Society Meetings in Boston later this week. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! -Wes

What is it like for physicians to fail their ABMS Maintenance of Certification® (MOC) program examination? How does the largest member boar...

Anti-MOC Buttons Click image to order yours On 13 May 2015 at 8 am in Room 162A of the Boston Convention Center, a session called ...

Her breathing had never taken a second thought, except for the past several months.  Slowly, gradually, her breathing became work so she cam...

“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...