A Noble Profession … If You Can Keep It
What in the world has happened to us? As the last three years have vividly illustrated, the social, political, and psychological impact of measures to contain a virus have had a shattering impact on us […]
Reclaiming The Profession of Medicine
The hope of many physicians is to have a chance to break away from the oppressive controls of corporate medicine andto return to an independent model of medical practice. If we take an honest look […]
Physicians Facing Unprecedented Challenges, States President of AAPS
Many physicians sense that something is just not right about what is happening in medicine, states Jenny Powell, M.D., who became president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) in October. “Now many […]
Corporate Cult of Certification Criticized by President of AAPS
Not long ago, board certification of physicians simply documented achievement of a certain level of specialty training, but recently it has become time-limited. There is a now a multi-million-dollar industry that imposes recurring onerous, expensive […]
The Cutting Edge or the Cliff: on Which Do You Stand?
By Kristin Story Held, M.D. View PDF of Article: https://jpands.org/vol25no1/held.pdf “I worked from the day I could stand… well, that’s enough about me…,” a humble man uttered reticently as we broke bread over the house […]
Can We Trust the Government with Our Medical Care?
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD The short answer is No. And thinking that, we would be in good company. A new survey finds that Americans trust Amazon more than the federal government.[1] The most […]
Overtreatment Has Several Causes, writes AAPS President Al Fisher
According to a recent survey, doctors think that more than 20 percent of medical care in the U.S. is unnecessary, writes Albert L. Fisher, M.D., of Oshkosh, Wis., president of the Association of American Physicians […]
Don’t Tread on Us
Click here for Part I. Click here for Part II. By Michael J. A. Robb, M.D. To innovate, physicians must be free from the shackles of third-party oppression, exponentially rising numbers of “administroids,” and the […]
The Restoration of American Medicine, Part II
By Michael J. A. Robb, M.D., Click here to read Part I At this writing the U.S. House of Representatives has just narrowly passed the bill called the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Now it […]
Goal: the Restoration of American Medicine, Part I
A message from AAPS President Michael J. A. Robb, M.D. Click here for Part II. My Ancestral Spirit of Revolution I am the direct maternal-side descendant of Andres Bonifacio, a founder of the Katipunan, who […]
