The following is a commencement speech given by ABIM Foundation President and CEO, Richard Baron, MD, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School’s 2014 graduation ceremony. “Your institution has ceded to me the last 15 minutes of your medical school instruction – how should I use it? One more time through the complement cascade?… Read more »
Blog Category: Letters from the Foundation
Malpractice and Choosing Wisely®: Lessons From My Hometown
I recently spoke to several health system/hospital quality experts and physician groups in Upstate New York about the Choosing Wisely campaign. I was looking forward to speaking about the campaign to a hometown crowd (I was born and raised in Syracuse) and an audience that included my former next-door neighbor, the regional president of Excellus…. Read more »
In Response To: Are Docs Choosing Wisely?
On April 15th Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News published a thoughtful article examining the Choosing Wisely campaign. This type of analysis is a critical part of the transparent, honest dialogue about the issues of unnecessary medical care that we have sought to encourage since launching the campaign. That said, we think it is unfortunately… Read more »
It’s About the Conversation
There is an interesting conversation taking place around Choosing Wisely® and a recent JAMA study by Pearson and Gliwa. It’s heartening to see that the campaign is doing what it was always meant to do – spark conversation. In their study, Gliwa and Pearson sought to “evaluate the role that evidence on benefits, risks, and… Read more »
Response to JAMA Internal Medicine Commentary
The Choosing Wisely campaign was recently criticized for lacking a solid methodological approach in an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine by Deborah Grady, Rita Redberg and William Mallon. As such, we wanted to clarify the procedures that all of our specialty society partners have followed in creating their recommendations of tests and treatments that physicians… Read more »