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Re: ABOG- AGAIN!From: Dean Huffman . (dean@thehuffpeople.net)Mon Oct 29 16:30:11 2007
.. ABOG has a monopoly, so why should they listen to anybody or charge reasonable fees, etc. ABOG likes "evidence based medicine". Where, pray tell, is the evidence that recertification improves one's ability to practice medicine, OB/GYN, etc.? Interesting question: ABOG certifies OB/GYN's, but who certifies ABOG? Anybody? The only way that I can think of to get any sort of a response (and even this probably will not work) would be to contact ABMS. - - - - From: Lynn Montgomery <apgar10@thebirthcentermt.com> Subject: ABOG- AGAIN! Date: Oct 29, 2007 11:17 AM 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.
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