Dr. Wes

This piece first appeared on Sensible Med on 4/26/2023. If you’re a board-certified internist, you’re probably quite familiar with the con...

With the ongoing forcing of participation in Maintenance of Certification (MOC) of US physicians by the American Board of Medical Specialtie...

Recently, there have been a rash of initiatives by unaccountable non-profit physician credentialing organizations ( Federation of State Medi...

 In late 2018 through 2020, The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) was involved in a class action antitrust lawsuit for claims of i...

It has been a long time since I have written anything concerning the American Board of Medical Specialties' (ABMS) Maintenance of Certif...

In late July 2021, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), a non-profit self-selected lobbying organization for US state medical boar...

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I must announce that on Thursday this past week, the United States 3rd Circuit Court of Ap...

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that certifies "internists and (medical) subspeci...

The following (redacted) email was received from Morgan Allen, Customer Relationship Advocate at the American Board of Internal Medicine (AB...

The unofficial transcribed  3rd Circuit Appellate Court arguments held 23 Oct 2020 between Mr. Philip Curley (lead attorney representing th...

Today, the first amended class action anti-trust complaint was filed by Drs. Emily Elizabeth Lazarou and Aafaque Akhter against the Americ...

As treasurer of Practicing Physicians of America , it gives me great pleasure to announce that we hit our goal of raising $400,000 in suppo...

The oral arguments in the appeal of the dismissal at the District Court level of the Kenney et al vs American Board of Internal Medicine (AB...

This Friday, 23 October 2020, oral arguments will be heard before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals regarding Kenney et al vs. the American...

 According to a Medscape survey of US internists in 2018, their average salary was $230,000. That same year, according to recently-released...

For the past seven years, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) member boards have been under fire regarding their trademarked Ma...

Since December 2018, a rash of antitrust lawsuits have been filed against the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and their member ...

The four Internal Medicine physician Plaintiffs-Appellants filed their latest Reply Brief in the class action lawsuit against the American...

It is the question at the crux of the antitrust cases against the ABMS member boards: Is board certification one product that has merely bee...