The Healthcare Unfiltered podcast has two good interviews: the first is with Wes Fisher and his decades-long battle with ABIM; the second is a debate between Aaron Goodman — who started the petition — and Richard Baron, the President and CEO of ABIM
The debate was a clear loss for Baron: his smooth baritone and even smoother sophistry could not help hide the fact that MOC is a pure money grab. I will lay out the 3rd grade math and 6th grade logic later this week.
Aaron was too nice on Baron. There should be a second petition: for ABIM to start having accountability, or else shut down. Back in the 1930s when it was founded we may have been ABIM “diplomats” who pay for their certification once then never again. Once you start extracting yearly dues, you no longer have gentlemen diplomats, you have members.