Dr. Wes

There's an amazing thread developing on Doug Farango's Authentic Medicine blog post titled " The AAFP Loves the ABFM and Sleep...

Chicken or Eagle? Image by Wes Fisher MD (Click to enlarge) There are 800,000 physicians in America and more than 80% believe the Mai...

From an opinion piece published earlier by internist Howard Schulman, MD in the Rhode Island Providence Journal : "I am writing to giv...

What do US cardiologists and electrophysiologists REALLY think about the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) heavily-promoted collabo...

Even the physicians who we trust to do brain surgery can't be trusted to determine their own education or the skills they need to dive i...

William Osler "When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them." "T...

From the American College of Radiology blog : "In response to a recent request from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS),...

Since the inception of Maintenance of Certification (MOC®) by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) tied to our initial board certi...

On 18 March 2019, the American Board of Internal Medicine responded for the first time in opposition to the federal class action lawsuit ...

This weekend, at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, the ACC and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) a...

ABMS Board of Directors Accepts  "Independent" ABMS-funded ABMS Vision Commission's Recommendations Enough said.  -Wes ...

Today in the Federal District Court of Northern Illinois, another class action lawsuit on behalf of over 25,000 psychiatrists and neurolo...

In November 30, 2018, the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS) and the National Board of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons...

In its latest update with Maintenance of Certification (MOC®) , the good ol' boy network of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), So...

Working doctors have made their dissatisfaction with the American Board of Medical Specialties' (ABMS) time-limited certification known ...

In response to an recent article in MDEdge about the GoFundMe page supporting four plaintiffs who brought suit against the American Board ...

On 12 Feb 2019, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Vision Commission created 25 September 2017, issued its Final Report to t...

From Paul G. Mathew, MD in Practical Neurology : Between the growing number of states adopting laws to protect physicians from forced MOC co...

From the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Board of Anesthesiology, the MOCA Minute® (Cost $210/yr + 100/yr for subsequent c...

On Wednesday, 23 Jan 2019, the class action antitrust lawsuit previously filed against the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in Pen...