What realistic solution is there? Is USCAP, ASCP, or CAP existing leadership going to stand for individual usurpers in their midst and actually allow them to take influential positions? Are pathology academic departments receptive to private practice pathology input and advice? Are small groups or individual pathologists going to be able to explain the oversupply to dense politicians who have coveted peer reviewed data, all published in high impact journals by academicians of course, that say otherwise?
Short of hundreds of private practice pathologists all writing to the government to pull the plug on pathology GME funding so that only the healthiest of academic departments can self fund training spots, nothing is going to happen from our end. That link from above is a start, but there are only 97 signatures there as of today.