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American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc ~ 1934
Question:
**This stinks! ** **Jan the hypocrisy is astounding.
Response:
>~~~ Don’t remember which True Believer of the HealthFraud cult was >claiming that shrinks weren’t licensed in Barrett’s day. How old is he >anyway? ?
Old enough to know better. >Why wouldn’t get have gotten his Board Certification ? ? ? ?
EXACTLY! <snip> >The Board holds meetings several times each year for the >purpose of examining candidates and transacting business.
Interesting. >Mission and Goals >The mission of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. is to >serve the public interest by promoting excellence in the practice of >psychiatry and neurology through lifelong certification including competency
testing processes. Even MORE interesting. Barrett claims to be protecting the public, but he was never board certified?? Something bad wrong with this picture. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Methods for achieving that goal include (but are not limited to) efforts to: >1. Describe, in terms of knowledge and skills, a physician with special >expertise in evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with >psychiatric and/or neurologic disorders or who require psychiatric and/or >neurologic assessment; >2. Set the standards for knowledge and skills required for certification; >3. Construct and administer examinations designed to evaluate those skills >and knowledge; >4. Monitor, evaluate, and improve the standards and procedures of the >certification process; >5. Participate in the appropriate Residency Review Committees of the >Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to set standards for >the quality and scope of residency training programs to ensure that their >graduates will obtain necessary training credit toward certification; >6. Issue certificates and other forms of recognition to successful >candidates; >7. Make available lists of diplomates who have fulfilled the requirements >for certification; >8. Inform the public, other professions, and other medical organizations >of the purposes, activities, and responsibilities of the Corporation; and >9. Participate in the activities of the American Board of Medical >Specialties and its member Boards.
This would explain why everyone should always find out if one is certified. If not, chose another doctor. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->The Board has the authority to revoke any certificate issued by it or to >place a certificate holder on probation for a fixed or indefinite period >of time if (1) the certificate was issued contrary to, or in violation of, >the bylaws or any rule or regulation of the Board, or (2) the person to >whom the certificate was issued made any material misstatement or omission >of fact to the Board in his or her application or otherwise. >Certification shall continue in force only so long as the holder has an >unrestricted license to practice medicine in a state, commonwealth, >territory, or possession of the United States or province of Canada. A >full and unrestricted medical license must be maintained even if a >physician is out of the country for extended periods of time. Restrictions >include but are not limited to conditions, contingencies, probation, and >stipulated agreements. Restriction of a physician’s license does not, >however, include voluntary participation in an impaired physicians program >or other appropriate, monitored alcohol or chemical substance-abuse >recovery program, if the physician has not been reported to either the >National Practitioners’ Data Bank or the Data Bank of the Federation of >State Medical Boards. It is the responsibility of the candidate/diplomate >to inform the Board immediately upon a change in licensure status.
Well. Maybe this explains why he wasn’t ever certified?? Didn’t want anyone looking over his shoulder? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Irregular behavior including unethical behavior of candidates >The Board believes that the ethics of candidates for certification are of >concern. The following rules apply: >1. Falsification of credentials will be cause for the Board