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To: Ilaine who wrote (134082)	8/24/2005 6:11:29 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793879

What does the Board of Medicine regulate? Here's the first board that popped up on my google: >>The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is the U.S. board that sets the standards and certifies the knowledge, skills and attitudes of physicians who practice in Internal Medicine, its subspecialties and areas of added qualifications.<< As usual with these reports, we don't know the whole story. What we have was framed in the report as a screwy woman being outraged at being told she was obese and going after the doctor for telling her that obvious fact. I suppose it could have happened that way. The world is not lacking in screwballs. As for it being a "legal" matter, I don't see where the doctor is being investigated for a crime or is being sued... But if the board is taking it seriously, maybe the report is a caricature. We have enough information to suggest that the doctor may have been out of line. Unless you know a patient really well and have a certain special rapport with her, you don't tell her she's going to die lonely because no one could possibly love her. I can see where the "skills and attitudes" involved in that would cause a medical board to sit up and take notice.

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