Dr. Wes

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Recently, Richard Baron MD, the President and CEO of the ABIM, circulated the following email request to a select group of physicians: ...

In its ongoing suit claiming copyright infringement against a Puerto Rican physician, American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) lawyers of ...

Imagine early one morning your doorbell rings. You wake from sleep and come to the door and open it. There before you is "a lawyer and ...

There are few times when medical academics sound more foolish that when they're caught with their hand in the regulatory cookie jar. T...

For the first time, the history of the ABMS/ABIM board re-certification corruption scandal has reached a peer reviewed medical journal, the ...

I didn't watch the Academy Awards last night, but I had seen the movie "Spotlight." It's an inspirational movie that chr...

Recently, an email was sent to all Cardiovascular Disease diplomats requesting a review of the American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovas...

I ask my readers to indulge me as I provide some background about the strongman tactics used by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABI...

From Peggy Noonan : We’re in the midst of a rebellion. The bottom and middle are pushing against the top. It’s a throwing off of old claim...

Happy (belated) Anniversary, ABIM! It's been over a year since you told us your now famous mea culpa message that said you "got ...

"I think that commercialization of care is a big mistake. Health care is a sacred mission. It is a moral enterprise and a scientific ...

I logged on to the ABIM website last evening and was greated by this pop-up screen. It seems the ABIM is in the business of "researc...

Anyone who has followed this blog for some time knows that much of my research on the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the ABI...

With so much controversy surrounding the American Board of Medical Specialties' (ABMS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program in 201...

It has been one year since the story of the ABIM Foundation, Choosing Wisely, and the $2.3 million Condominium appeared on this blog. It ...

From John Kass , political reporter from the Chicago Tribune , this morning: "Chicago is the most American of American cities," ...

We've seen the " We got it wrong " messages." We've seen the " We're listening to our members " messa...

Pre-MOC Average: $146,073/year Post-MOC Average: $1,090,184/year This graph sums up another reason the American Board of Medical Specia...

Two days ago after a typical day performing procedures in the EP lab, doing inpatient consults, fielding patient messages, attending admini...