MOC by Steven Mussey MD
Editor’s Note: As I prepare for my THIRD board exam in 20 years, I couldn’t agree more.
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Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
ABFM = Academic Bastards and F**k**g Morons
AAFP = Academic Assholes and F**k**g Pricks
I made it through 37 years of family practice, just retired, never took boards, never boarded, made out ok. Docs need to get balls, or brass ovaries, and just all say “We’re not going to take the MOC tests, so pack them up and give them to the needy.” They really don’t prove competency at all.
I’ve been extorted 6 times in the past 39 years of practice! I hate to think of how many 10’s of thouysands of dollars I spent on Board Review Courses, travel costs, hotels etc , etc.
I’ve only done it 5 times in 34 years, but finally reached the “end zone”. I’m now “board eligible”
Oh, man, you’ve hit a nerve there.
As much as it galls me to know that a portion of my paycheck every two weeks is going into the pockets and mouth of that 18 year old single girl who just got pregnant again because her Medicaid is running out on the previous baby, the fact that I have to send actual cash money to support the fat salaries of a bunch of academic fatheads whose ONLY job is to sit and figure out how to make my life harder and harder every few years simply infuriates me.
I had once thought that medicine was a self-governing field, but now I know better, and you’re absolutely right: It’s a protection racket, pure and simple, and I have to pay to make the criminals stronger, so that they can bully me more.
There is of course a major difference: mobsters don’t pretend that they are working for the greater good, or claim any moral superiority while stealing from you. In that respect, mobsters are far more honest than MOC’rs.