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Clarion L's avatar

Dr Kory and Dr Marick.... SUPREME COURT .. here we go!!!!! Victory dance coming up 💃 🕺 They are trying to shut you down @ FLCCC in time for next looming pandemic!!! PRAYING ... Bless you for your continued fight.... Side note: maybe it’s time to start voting Republican Kory 🥴 TRUMP 2024

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As a physician I left the ABFM (Family Medicine) years ago when it became clear that it was all a money grab with constant dues and fees for testing all while they had no documentation to prove that anything they subjected members to do to maintain a piece of credentialing to hang on the wall improved patient care or outcomes! I thought about his for a while and not one of my patients ever asked if I was board certified or took a look at my piece of paper on the wall even though every one of them walked by it daily!!

What matters to my patients? That I continue to learn to not only maintain, but actually improve, my knowledge and skills to help provide them the best medical knowledge to help them Live Their Best Lives, and MOST IMPORTANTLY - that I CARE! Do you sense that from your traditionally trained and board certified doc??

I decided to join a group of physicians who were tired of the money grab and formed an alternative credentialing board - the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS). They require re-certification on a regular basis with proof of required amounts of CME, or continuing education credits, to prove that we maintain our knowledge base to provide the best care we are able to for our patient's well being. What any conscientious doctor would do anyway! Makes perfect sense to me. The group is growing in membership and it's credentialing is accepted by more hospitals for certification on a yearly basis

So, Fighting the establishment ABMS is a good endeavor, as shutting them down would remove the strangle hold they have on all "member" physicians. This would remove the FEAR of utilizing our education and experience to help our patients rather than follow a prescribed cookbook recipe forced on us by the "board". But you must have a huge pot of funds to do so as they have lots of lawyers and lots of money extorted from physician members over the years! Give the members at the NBPAS a call and ask them to join the fight - many hands make light work!!

Tom Rohde, M.D.

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