Blog Category: Letters from the Foundation

In 2006, the ABIM Foundation and the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP), a non-profit health care think tank based at Columbia University, made a bold move to publicly confront the issue of physician conflict of interest (COI) and expose its threat to medical professionalism. A panel assembled by the Foundation and IMAP published… Read more »

While recruiting specialty societies to the Choosing Wisely campaign about six years ago, I attended a board meeting of a surgical specialty society.  I had flown to Chicago to meet with the society’s board as it considered whether to join the campaign.  The one question board members had for me was: What happens when a… Read more »

What disturbs me about online retail medicine is the lack of face-to-face conversation between the patient and the clinician.

Dialogue has to start with the assumption that all parties have good intentions and the belief that most people are reasonable most of the time.

This month marks the seventh anniversary of the Choosing Wisely campaign, which launched on April 4, 2012 to much public fanfare. Nine specialty societies took a courageous step, answering our call for clinicians to identify five things that are done too frequently in their fields and for which there was no evidence of patient benefit…. Read more »