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AAPS News May 2014 - Do Doctors Expire in 10 Years?
So one day a highly trained, experienced physician may be board certified—and the next day, after examination results are revealed or a deadline for MOC compliance passes, he may be decertified and unemployable. In that one day, could he have become demented, or fallen behind in keeping up with his field?
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Thanks for posting this, Bradley. AAPS is to the medical establishment much like STR is to mainstream media.
Licensing and "board certification" are merely barriers to entry. They serve neither your interests nor mine -- but they do augment the presumed legitimacy of that mindless abstraction we like to call "state". Butler Shaffer describes this in detail with "In Restraint of Trade..." Sam