Since the early years of American independence, life expectancy increased from 32 years in 1800 to 68.2 years in 1950. Private indemnity insurance developed to help cover the cost of medical care. Only 9 percent […]
As we are approaching the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, George L. Smith, III, M.D., reflects on the independence of physicians in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. […]
In these days of protocols and “evidence-based medicine,” skills of independent thinking and judgment are being lost to “cookbook medicine,” writes Erika L. LeBaron, D.O., M.S.N., in the fall issue of the Journal of American […]
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) project is a monumental task, writes Erika L. LeBaron, DO., M.S.N., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. LeBaron, current president of the […]
Any notion that medicine was immune to the culture shocks in our nation was destroyed by the intersection of the George Floyd response and COVID-era policy, writes ophthalmologist Jane Lindell Hughes, M.D., F.A.C.S., in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
