In response to criticism that its Maintenance of Certification (MOC) exam is too time-consuming, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) recently announced plans to offer a new option that will allow physicians to take a shorter assessment exam beginning in 2018.
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas (the "Court") granted a petition for writ of mandamus, requiring the trial court to vacate its order requiring a hospital to produce documents it contended were protected from discovery by the Texas medical peer review committee and medical...