Were You Harmed by Not Doing the MOC?
This may sound like a commercial you hear on TV but it is important for us doctors. Were you a family doc who has been harmed by the MOC? In other words, you let it lapse or didn’t want to pay anymore but then lost privileges at a hospital or an insurance company would not pay you anymore because the ABFM removed your name from being certified? Well, the lawsuits are finally rolling along. We have supported the GoFundMe campaign here at Authentic Medicine and it is happening.
If the MOC sham affected you then go to the ABIMLawsuit.com website to give the law firm your name/story/contact info as to how your were harmed. Wes Fisher MD tells me that “This legal team is sharp as hell and would like to confront ABMS from many different angles like a suit against ABFM, too. (Working on similar tactic with Peds)”.
Kill the MOC!
Thanks, Doug. ABFM is one of the wealthiest ABMS member boards, in large part because there are so many family medicine docs in the US who are continously forced to pay ABFM to keep the “continuous” certification scam going. It just takes a few brave souls harmed by MOC to break the monopoly.
I too was harmed by doing the MOC. I actually studied for it, which was a waste of time, and I had the mental wear over passing the damn thing for the third time in 20 years. After a literal pat down and wand search every time I went to the restroom, I was shaking in rage when I left the test center, feeling humiliated and powerless. The only solace I had was to take my review books and use them to inaugurate a new 12-gauge.
The MOC demonstrated to me (again) how one has to surrender their self-respect to persevere in medicine. All I learned during this hateful process was that I will never prepare for another revert exam (if I ever have to do another). Our turncoat colleagues who sold us all out to this extortion are vermin who deserve bad ends.
Ha ha.
My Organic Chemistry textbook encountered six .44 Mag hollowpoints courtesy of my S&W Model 29.
Still have it somewhere. In a Zip-Lock.
I too experienced the same treatment at my testing facility. I had to beg to be permitted to simply bring in some chap-stick into the room in addition to reading glasses. The room was so noisy with other high school test takers typing on loud keyboards that I had to wear the headphones in the room to just keep it quiet enough to take the test. I felt like a criminal while taking the test just like Pat. Everything of mine was locked in a locker and I had to basically turn out my pockets and show that I wasn’t cheating by bringing contraband into the room. It was degrading.
Rather ironic that we as physicians are trusted with people’s lives, but not to take a frigging test without cheating.
I took the test in 2017 for the 4th time, and passed. But I am now no longer ABFM certified because I didn’t pay them cash last year. I’m self employed– no one but me to pay them! And it wasn’t in the budget.
No harm to me, other than a lingering pain in my testicles, but then I’ve maintained this BS because I WOULD have been fired if I hadn’t.
My protest was to do NOTHING for MOC other than the bare requirements, which is to say no studying or preparation of any kind, and I spent my employer’s money on the fees. Barely passed the test this last time (that OB was a killer, and, oh yeah, I don’t do OB at all in my practice), but I did, which gave me another ten years (if I live that long).
Maybe if we all work together, there won’t be a next recert.