WHAT’S NEW
AAPS News April 2024 – Vaccination and Health
Volume 80, no. 4 The U.S. is said to be a “Vaccine Nation.” The central dogma of public health and most pediatric practices is that vaccination is the most important medical advance. It purportedly has […]
Once Esteemed Institutions Are Corrupted, States President of AAPS
The institutions and experts we have long relied on are now contaminated with intellectual, moral, and ethical rot, writes ophthalmologist Jane Lindell Hughes, M.D., F.A.C.S., in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians […]
Infectious Disease Specialist Calls Campaign against Repurposed Drugs in COVID-19 a ‘Great Hypocrisy’
Although “off-label” use of drugs approved for a different indication is routine in medical practice, there was an early, aggressive campaign against such use for COVID-19, writes infectious disease specialist Wendell W. Hoffman, M.D., in […]
Abusive Referrals for Psychiatric Assessment Are a Tool of Sham Physician Peer Review
Sham peer review is often used by hospitals and medical boards to discredit and remove physicians who stand out from the crowd (e.g., innovators, physician whistleblowers, successful competitors). One technique for physicians who fail to […]
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) May Protect Physicians Wrongfully Compelled to Have Psychiatric Evaluation
Physicians facing allegations of workplace impairment and mandated to submit to a “fitness for duty” evaluation (FFDE), under the threat of losing employment or license to practice medicine, are “pushed onto a train with no […]
COVID Origin Is a Gordian Knot, according to the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
Controversy over the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19—a natural zoonosis vs. a lab leak—has escalated to high-level acrimony and even threatened violence, writes Jane Orient, M.D., in the spring issue of the […]
EVENTS
Sept 18-21, 2024: AAPS 81st Annual Meeting
Medicine’s Past, Present, and Future- Let’s Roll! SAVE THE DATES to join your colleagues to network, strategize, learn, prepare, and be energized ahead of the pivotal 2024 elections that will play a major factor in […]
