Beyond the Soul’s Meridian January 27, 2017
The Willful Destruction of our Esteemed Profession
In 1936 the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) was established by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) as an independent organization to credential and “certify” our nation’s medical doctors through a series of proprietary testing. The ABIM acts as a non-profit corporation that has held a monopoly over our nation’s physicians for well over the last 75 years. For the vast majority of those 75 years the relationship between the ABIM and the organizations which created it remained in a relative state of equilibrium. Around the year 1990, things dramatically changed. Despite the fact that by 1990 our physicians had conceded to a series of highly rigorous credentialing examinations and a program of lifelong academic learning known as CME (Continuing Medical education) pressure was applied to our nation’s doctors to capitulate to a new program that would be instituted by the ABIM which would in effect strip all physicians of their tenure. Continue reading “Mind Control in Medicine”