Re: ABOG- AGAIN!
From: l.glazerman@rcn.com
Mon Oct 29 11:25:07 2007
I did as well. I wonder if they're doing it alphabetically???
>---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:17:00 -0500
>From: Rafael Haciski <haciski@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: ABOG- AGAIN!
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>
> I got my "unofficial" letter of correct number of
> questions answered last week.
> 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
>
>
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