Dr. Wes

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Saturday, February 08, 2020

MOC's Sword of Damocles and the Platinum Rule

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The current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings has an article entitled " Maintenance of Certification and the Platinum Rule: An Existent...
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Tuesday, February 04, 2020

PA Medical Society and MOC

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Are medical societies advocating to end the unproven American Board of Medical Specialties' Maintenance of Certification (MOC) mandate o...
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

The Certified Deceit and Exploitation of US Physicians

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For the past seven years, I have devoted a significant amount of my time to investigating and telling the true story of US physician "b...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Who Is the ABIM Chief Medical Officer?

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Drs. Richard G. Battaglia and Richard Baron (Image from the ABIM Blog ) Who is Richard G. Battaglia, MD? In 2015, the American Board o...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Visible Cracks

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it was a clinic day like all the rest until it wasn't she was there with her son and granddaughter winded legs swollen "for a m...
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Monday, January 13, 2020

The Study We Weren't Supposed to See

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Most US physicians are well-acquainted with the American Board if Internal Medicine's (ABIM) breathless claims of ABIM board certificat...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

ABIM Antitrust/RICO Lawsuit Notice of Appeal Filed

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Today, the official Notice of Appeal was filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Pennsylvania. It appears the ...
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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Just In Time for Christmas: The MOC Legal Juggernaut Intensifies

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With the recent back-to-back announcements that the class action antitrust and racketeering lawsuit against the American Board of Internal M...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2019

ABIM's Dark Side Needs More Light

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From the recently filed "Objections to Deadlines due to Completion of Discovery" by Plaintiff Jaimie Salas Rushford, MD in Puerto...
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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Watching Our Healthcare Hindenburg Burn

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Just before Thanksgiving,  15 physicians were notified they will be replaced  by less-experienced and cheaper nurse practitioners at the nea...
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Sunday, November 24, 2019

The AMA and ABMS Member Boards: Banking on the Promise of Private Equity

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Recently, I was sent a prospectus for a medical device company that caught the eye of a local Venture Capital funding group. On that prospec...
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Friday, November 15, 2019

Timeline for Justice: ABIM v Salas Rushford

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A young resident physician, Jaime Salas Rushford MD, came to New Jersey from Puerto Rico to study for his initial American Board of Internal...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Is CMS's Value-Based Healthcare System Already Being Gamed?

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Take a look at the address of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) that owns the Maintenance of Certification (MOC®) trademark t...
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Saturday, November 09, 2019

MOC®: It's All About Physician Data

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The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal was a major political scandal in early 2018 when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had ...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

What Gives?

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WHAT GIVES the American Board of Internal Medicine the ability to take away years of schooling, mountains of prior testing, sleepless nig...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

A Case Study in the Wrong Way to Fix Clinician Burnout

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Asking the system to fix the system in regards to physician and nursing burnout is like asking the fox to watch the henhouse. They have no...
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Saturday, October 12, 2019

Plaintiffs to Appeal ABIM Class-Action Lawsuit in Full

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With the time to amend the earlier class action antitrust and racketeering lawsuit against the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) p...
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Saturday, October 05, 2019

You Know There's a Problem with MOC When...

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... yet another antitrust lawsuit is filed against ANOTHER American Board of Medical Specialties' member board.  This time, the American...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Why Working Physicians Deserve Their Day in Court

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Ask any physician who shares 24-hour call with his colleagues: what time is the worst time to get called into the hospital? Most will tell y...
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Sunday, September 29, 2019

Some Thoughts on the Recent ABIM Lawsuit Ruling

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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax After research...
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DrWes
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC is a board certified internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist (doctor specializing in heart rhythm disorders) practicing at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL, USA and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He is an unpaid co-founder of Practicing Physicians of America, a 501c6 non-profit business league for working physicians. He entered the blog-o-sphere in November, 2005. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this blog are strictly the those of the author(s) and should not be construed as the opinion(s) or policy(ies) of NorthShore University HealthSystem, nor recommendations for your care or anyone else's. Please seek professional guidance instead.
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