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The Medical Board board sent me a threatening email.
They want me to pay $500 for the privilege of appealing their decision.
AND they asked me not to even mention this publicly
LET ME BE CLEAR—
We are never, ever, EVER getting back together. ��
This morning's GI Path 2nd Opinion Club (#GIPSOC) was humiliating, and a disaster. Some people (or bots) who seemed to be participants in our friendly and respectful meeting suddenly started sharing graphic and disgusting pornography and putting hateful and racist rhetoric in the chat. I'm absolutely gutted by this turn of events. I'm no cybersecurity expert, nor am I a natural gatekeeper. It really never occurred to me that some person (or group) would wish to infiltrate a community of dozens of pathologists (hardly a huge audience) and subject them to that. I'm very sorry to everyone who witnessed it. Up until today, GIPSOC has been such a wonderful experience, and I'm happy to have met so many of you. But I'm putting it on hold for now. I will give some thought to if and how it can be restarted. Thanks to all who have supported this endeavor, especially Raul, Andrew, and Beth.
@Zoom perhaps you can look into what happened with the following meeting: https://t.co/FuFptE8VXL
This morning's GI Path 2nd Opinion Club (#GIPSOC) was humiliating, and a disaster. Some people (or bots) who seemed to be participants in our friendly and respectful meeting suddenly started sharing graphic and disgusting pornography and putting hateful and racist rhetoric in the chat. I'm absolutely gutted by this turn of events. I'm no cybersecurity expert, nor am I a natural gatekeeper. It really never occurred to me that some person (or group) would wish to infiltrate a community of dozens of pathologists (hardly a huge audience) and subject them to that. I'm very sorry to everyone who witnessed it. Up until today, GIPSOC has been such a wonderful experience, and I'm happy to have met so many of you. But I'm putting it on hold for now. I will give some thought to if and how it can be restarted. Thanks to all who have supported this endeavor, especially Raul, Andrew, and Beth.
@Zoom perhaps you can look into what happened with the following meeting: https://t.co/FuFptE8VXL
Confession: When I first became a Doctor, I used to be VERY skeptical of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs).
Now after a few years of practice and real world experience, I realize that many of them are WAY better than Doctors (MDs).
More time, empathy, and also more open-minded.
Their supposed *lack of schooling* compared to MDs is a load of nonsense. Physician medical education could be cut in HALF; most of what is learned is unnecessary and used to justify the outrageous pay and tuition of academics and rip-off medical schools. Same goes for postgraduate specialty training; 1-2 years of NPs or PAs working with specialists, they often know as much as many MDs.
If and when the time comes that I ever decide to find my own Primary Care Doctor, I will be choosing a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant!
Each year in the U.S. there are more than 12 million medical diagnostic errors. This is one of the root causes that needs to be addressed
https://t.co/Hyk0EB1BaU today's @washingtonpost editorial