ABIM can you please add a deactivate board button to your lovely website?

I can pay easily online (even in advance) to maintain my board yet I have to fill out this form and scan it in or fax to deactivate? WTF?

♻️ Green Endoscopy

✅ There are recyclable bite blocks (mouth pieces) 👍🏻

➡️ Paradoxically, most endoscopy units in the Northern Hemisphere 🌍 🌎 are abandoning recyclable ♻️ utensils 🧰 🛠️

Another missed lesion >10 mm.

Path pending.

Lesion was noticed during third colono for follow up after pEMR of another LST.

Nicholas A. Christakis Mayo Clinic The question of legal or not, to me, secondary to the fact that Mayo _wants to do this_. This sort of professional silencing should be the antithesis of how an academic center views its mission.

Mayo’s action may or may not be lawful, but is unquestionably shameful.

Please I urge everyone to email your administration to break ties with ABIM. They changed the rules again after backlash. Why do our hospitals work with ABIM and force us to maintain our certificates?? It’s a scam and they don’t give a sh*t about physician burnout.

Thanks ABIM a little too late to change the deadline as you already (on April 1st) emailed my employer informing them I was no longer board certified! Do you realize the harms you are causing with this??? Do you even care enough to study this.

To its great shame, and at a tremendous loss of credibility, Mayo Clinic argues it has legal right to punish professors for voicing their medical opinions. How can anyone believe that Mayo doctors actually believe what they say any more? thecollegefix.com/mayo-clinic-ar…

This is a scam. When I signed up IM boards in 2014 I was not informed that subsequent boards would be dependent on keeping IM up to date. I paid them $ for IM, magically I can now take heme MOC.They just want more $.ABIM sucks, let me take care of patients with cancer in peace.

ABIM extortion-thread

I started vacation with kids with an unfortunate email threatening my ability to practice medicine. Hospital bylaws require me to be board certified. But I am certified! it hasn't been 10 years since my heme board. I should be good (at least I thought)!

Baha Moshiree MD, MSci, FACG, AGAF Naveen Reddy GI Pearls Harry Thomas Manoj Mehta MD Oh jeez it’s real. I understand consent but serious lack of thought about how much this is a burden and will prevent care.

Was #GITwitter aware of this? I always discuss rectal exams before performing them, but requiring formal written consent will reduce an already underutilized exam.

⁦Baha Moshiree MD, MSci, FACG, AGAF⁩ ⁦GI Pearls⁩ ⁦Harry Thomas⁩ ⁦⁦Manoj Mehta MD⁩ gastro.org/news/new-hhs-g…

Naveen Reddy Baha Moshiree MD, MSci, FACG, AGAF GI Pearls Harry Thomas Manoj Mehta MD Is this an April fools joke?

Round 2.

This is sigmoid colon.

Do you see clinically relevant findings ?

Keith Siau EndoCollab™ | GI Endoscopy Community ESGE

Aaron Stupple Jonathan Haidt Where does this sense of absolute, unchallengeable entitlement to someone's attention come from?

Not from the consent of the governed, evidently. Where else?

David Deutsch Jonathan Haidt Haidt’s argument repeatedly returns to knowing what is appropriately interesting, both for children and adults.

Imagine that?

A tremendous honor to receive this award in Jerusalem from President Isaac Herzog ⁦(יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog⁩) and Minister Amichai Chikli (⁦עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli⁩) for being a friend to the Jewish people and fighting the resurgence of anti-Semitism.

Aaron Stupple Jonathan Haidt Of course you should.

I’m excited that Coleman Hughes has a long career ahead of him of putting his finger clearly on the points that matter.

Against MOC? (Not so much) 👇 Do better.

GI Pearls Steven Bollipo Manoj Mehta MD ACG Keith Siau Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF Douglas G. Adler MD, FASGE, FACG, AGAF Doug Robertson Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF GI/Hepatology Pearls Austin Chiang, MD MPH FASGE FACG Uma Mahadevan Naveen Reddy I’m gonna agree with GI Pearls on this one