Ed Rico

Apparently the honeymoon is over.

@doctorwes @ACPIMPhysicians As a bonus, many Elite Professional Medical Politician docs at Walnut St and other Cartel ivory towers can go back to work providing patient care, helping the current shortage. Some of them haven’t picked up a stethoscope in a while, so they may require a little “retraining”.

@ACPIMPhysicians Financial planning 101: End unproven MOC and save $9 Billion of useless spending. amjmed.com/article/S0002-…

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Dear ABIM: Apparently, you have overlooked Option C, which is telling @ABIMcert to pound sand.

@doctorwes ABIM’s New Logo:

* BREAKING* ABIM loses copyright infringement case against Dr. Jaime Salas-Rushford AND loses effort to seal opinion. Depositions, tactics, ABIM attorney insults, secret agreements: entire docket. All public now. medtees.com/content/SEALED… medtees.com/content/DNJ%20…

Here’s some Friday humor from our friends at @ABIMCert Q: What’s the difference between ABIM and a catfish? A: One’s a scum-sucking bottom-feeder and the other one’s a fish.

@doctorwes @ABIMcert @ahahospitals When under stress, @ABIMCert can always be expected to fall back on their tried and true business plan.

It’s official: @ABIMcert is an evil and non-transparent org. Why? Because they lost their 10-yr legal case against Jaime Salas Rushford, MD (14-cv-6428) (details here: drwes.blogspot.com/2019/11/timeli…) yet sealed the decision while they appeal. @ahahospitals take note: we know the truth.

Since you’re such a strong advocate for popular vote majorities, Bob, what’s the current percentage of practicing internists and IM sub specialists who support you and your Cartel Cronies’ usurped authority over 25% of US Physicians? Not counting the ones feeding at your trough.

High irony coming from a Sycophant paid to carry water for a self-appointed, unelected Cartel with a brutal history of using their usurped powers to crush dissent of practicing physicians who object to Cartel extortion.

@doctorwes @ABIMcert Congratulations, Doc. You’re “exceptionally qualified”.

History repeats 👇 ⁦@ABIMcert⁩ marketing “exceptionally qualified” label to naive international grads. U.S. physicians had “limited and declining” acceptance of their schemes long ago. Buyer beware. medtees.com/content/Glasso…

@Matt_Pinner Reverse

Can you solve it?

Dear @ABIMcert, I have exercised my preferred option, which is to deactivate ABIM. You parasites will never see another dime from me again. All the best, -Ed

@doctorwes @narrowQRS @CMichaelGibson @AaronGoodman33 @ABIMcert @PPA_USA Much as I dislike ABIM and their blatant extortion to fill their own pockets, based on previous court decisions, I’d expect future court decisions along the same lines. “ABIM is free to structure ‘Board Certification/MOC’ any way they want, because after all, it is voluntary”

@narrowQRS @CMichaelGibson @AaronGoodman33 @ABIMcert How many U.S. physicians would like @PPA_USA to engage attorneys to file a class action suit against @ABIMcert regarding their new “per certificate” pay model implemented 1 Feb 2022?

Hey @doctorwes , @CMichaelGibson , @AaronGoodman33 , I am hearing a flurry of stories from mid-cycle docs having their 10-year ABIM recertification revoked prematurely because of MOC payments!!! That means huge doc numbers to revolt!!! @ABIMcert -- MOC is toast! 🍞

@doctorwes MOC poses a threat to everything except, coincidentally, the Quality/Cert Cartel’s perpetual tax-advantaged revenue stream.

Does MOC Pose a Threat to the CME Market for US Physicians? practicingphysician.org/does-moc-pose-…

@doctorwes @DrPeterCCook @ABIMcert @PPA_USA I’m not a lawyer either, but I would expect our @ABIMCert friends to argue (with a straight face) that certification is voluntary and they cannot help it if other organizations require the ABIM credential for qualification.

@DrPeterCCook @ABIMcert While I am not a lawyer, my understanding is that this might constitute wire fraud (use of the internet) in addition to breach of contract, among others. @PPA_USA will pursue. This simply is not right.

Another EP checked his ABIM portal this AM after years of not checking. Owes > $1300 for cardiac EP certificate that expires in 2028. And I thought I had it bad… @ABIMcert this is nothing but a shake down. #EndMOC

@doctorwes @ABIMcert The product that @ABIMcert is selling is the right to practice medicine for 25% of US physicians. The fact that @ABIMcert usurped that right from the public, physicians & state licensing authorities is a technicality that is ignored in favor of unlimited tax-free revenue.

Selling a product and not standing by it get’s an F from Better Business Bureau. Congrats on your accomplishment @ABIMcert .

@doctorwes You can expect it to look a lot like the old Board.

So what will our new Cardiology Board look like? No one knows and no one is allowed to know until 14 Nov, even though the planning has been going on for months. (Except, of course, the ABMS, ACC and corporate interests.) cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/healthc…

Dear @ABIMCert: I want to let you know you’ll be eligible to kiss my ass in 2024. You’re *already * participating! Best regards, -Ed

@doctorwes @MrWBond @GlassockJ @DrRyanPDaly @ABIMcert Is there really any uncertainty about @ABIMCert’s motives in “asking, not requiring” Diplomates to recertify?

@MrWBond @GlassockJ @DrRyanPDaly @ABIMcert Poor guy’s gone rogue on Tw (X) after trying to justify his published “uncertain circumstances” threat to us.

The paper that proposed the illegal tie that forces all US ABMS board certified physicians to purchase MOC for the rest of their careers - or else. @GlassockJ et al.

@doctorwes @GlassockJ ABIM-speak translation: “If you want to practice medicine, you have to pay us”

@doctorwes @chadinabhan @RichardBaron17 @ABIMcert ABIM-speak translation: We are not responsible for any damage caused by the blatant hypocrisy of our self-serving greed, which supersedes all other objectives, express or implied. So much for Primum Non Nocere, Dr. Baron.

ABIM recently scrambled to create a conflict of interest statement that they sent to @chadinabhan in time for his podcast with @RichardBaron17. Read it carefully because it means nothing when the @ABIMCert's corporate bylaws say the following:

@doctorwes The Emperor knows he has no clothes, he’s only worried about losing that perpetual river of tax-advantaged cash.

Thanks to all those who signed this petition. We’re so close. Let’s help the emperor see he has no clothes. Eliminate ABIMs MOC requirement · Change.org change.org/p/eliminate-ab…