Re: ABOG- AGAIN!
From: Rafael Haciski (haciski@earthlink.net)
Mon Oct 29 11:15:41 2007
I got my "unofficial" letter of correct number of questions answered
last week.
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Rafael Haciski MD FACOG
Anchor Health Centers GYN
800 Goodlette Rd #360
239-643-8780 office
239-571-0292 cell
Naples, FL.
On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Lynn Montgomery wrote:
> Listers,
>
> I must vent here a bit. I did my re-cert by the book; paying my
> outrageous fee, filling in all those damn archaic little dots in
> this computer age when even the Board of Nursing exams in Montana
> are done directly on the computer, mailing in my answer sheets in
> mid-August by a courier with proof of receipt the next day. Yet
> here on October 29th, I still have gotten no acknowledgment about
> receipt, score or re-certification. Both of the hospitals in which
> I have privileges are calling wanting verification of Board
> certification because the one from last year expires on 12/31.
>
> So I call the Board – the Board I have paid thousands of dollars to
> over the years – and get a recorded message. You CANNOT talk with
> someone. In the message, they state that they cannot verify
> receipt of your re-cert answer sheets and that you should contact
> your “courier”. Then they instruct you to leave your name, Board
> number and phone number and they will get back to you. As yet, I
> have heard nothing!
>
> Now, we must have a fancy new “Testing Center”, paid for by our
> outrageous fees, when everybody else is using computer based
> technology enabling testing to be accomplished in the comfort of
> one’s own home or office. We must comply with a “new” form of re-
> certification, when they can’t even provide a timely response to
> the present one that is as simple as feeding answer sheets into a
> reader that spits out the result. What the hell is wrong with this
> picture. I am not talking about the SAT or ACT where every high
> school senior in the country is taking the exam, but rather JUST
> the ABOG diplomats who are doing annual re-certs – what can be so
> damn difficult?
>
> Lynn
>
> Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D.
>
> Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
>
> The Birth Center/Rocky Mountain Women's Health
>
> 1211 S. Reserve St.
>
> Missoula, Montana, 59801
>
> 406-549-0978
>
> fax 406-549-0987
>
> e-mail: apgar10@thebirthcentermt.com
>
