Good post. Someone asked why Dr. West would have become board-certified after retiring from delivering babies ... and the obvious answer is to gain the minimum qualification needed to be an administrator. Sometimes you have to have the credentials on your resume to move up. Also, if you remain a clinician, you may become more specialized in a certain aspect of your practice and narrow the types of cases you work on. In either case, the board certification does not debunk the claim that he stopped delivering babies two years earlier. That two years was probably spent studying for the board exams.
Too much logic, too much common sense, who’s going to believe THAT? sarc.