In the Oath of Hippocrates, physicians promise to work for the good of their patients, according to the best of their ability and judgment, and to do no harm. We support a return to this ethic […]
I hope you are in good health—as the costs of medical care are exorbitant. There are many reasons for the staggering cost. The graph shows the percentage of the economy devoted to the “health” sector. […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (“AAPS”) served a lawsuit on Oct 11, seeking to block the upcoming requirement that tens of millions of Americans provide their personal information to federal agencies beginning Jan […]
Volume 80, no. 10 October 2024 Physicians are held accountable for every code, every prescription, every referral, every entry in the electronic medical record—and increasingly for public or private statements challenging the approved narrative. Punishments […]
10/1/2024 UPDATE: Thank you to all who have taken the time to speak out against A1884, a bill that restricts the freedom of speech of not only physicians in NJ but all licensed health care professionals in the […]
Volume 80, no. 9 September 2024 In a startling development in electoral politics, prominent Democrats are endorsing Donald Trump: Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The key issue for them is the […]
The heavily politicized response to COVID included a war on the use of ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug, despite the previously favorable response to the repurposing of old drugs to new uses, writes Jane Orient, M.D., […]
A bad-faith or sham peer review can ruin a physician’s entire career, but there are some methods that might help undo the damage, writes Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., in the fall issue of the Journal […]
After thousands of conversations with artificial intelligence (AI) systems, software developer Jonathan Cohler concludes that they lie, they know they are lying, and they are forced to lie, as he reports in the fall issue […]
Almost four years into the COVID saga, Americans still seem to be in a dystopian world reminiscent of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 Alice in Wonderland, writes Jane Lindell Hughes, M.D., F.A.C.S., in the fall issue of […]
About AAPS
Since 1943, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS, has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine. Learn more