AAPS News April 2016 – Death Care Apr 9, 2016 Volume 72, no. 4 April 2016 In the post-Hippocratic, post-Christian, post-modern era, facilitating or even causing death is becoming a form of treatment, often called […]
AAPS News March 2016 – EMR: The Potemkin VIlliage of Medicine Mar 1, 2016 Volume 72, no. 3 March 2016 The deterioration of American medicine is visible to the naked eye. Anecdotes tell of soiled […]
Volume 71, no. 11 November 2015 The phrase “Peak Oil”—forgotten since the shale revolution—implies that after the pinnacle, it is all downhill. We’ll either slide backward, into medieval sources of energy—sunlight, wind, and human muscle, […]
Physicians are increasingly suffering symptoms similar to those of the battered spouse syndrome, writes Texas ophthalmologist Kristin Held, M.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
AAPS News August 2015 – The Rule of Law Aug 30, 2015 Volume 71, no. 8 August 2015 It seems that we are hearing the phrases “the Law of the Land” and “the Rule of […]
AAPS News May 2015 – Involuntary Servitude Apr 28, 2015 Volume 71, no. 5 When doctors advocate opting out of Medicare, naysayers often reply, “They’ll just make us participate as a condition of licensure.” It’s […]
AAPS News March 2015 – ObamaCare Bypass Mar 5, 2015 Volume 71, no. 3 The new Republican-controlled Congress has passed yet another symbolic bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), although many say that […]
Not just Barack Obama, but all politicians promise to protect Medicare—even if they are robbing it to pay for ObamaCare. They don’t promise that you can keep your Medicare doctor, however. And they don’t address the question of what happens if you don’t like your Medicare.
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama claimed that the “shadow of crisis” has passed, and all will be well. If Congress tries to unravel any of his achievements, such as the Affordable […]
AAPS News January 2015 – The Destruction of Insurance Jan 4, 2015 Volume 71, no. 1 The Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) has essentially destroyed the individual market for medical insurance, and is well […]
