COVID-19: Are You Getting Your Latest Booster?
This is the time of year when the annual push for flu shots is on, now being combined with promotion of COVID and RSV shots. Have you decided yet? While your public health director is […]
COVID-19: Is Dementia Becoming More Common?
I hope you are not having to deal with a loved one who is becoming demented. The burden is growing as the population ages. Alzheimer’s was the sixth leading cause of death in the […]
Climate Watch: Is CO2 Reaching a Crisis Level?
Are you worried about your carbon footprint? “My Carbon” apps are under development. The World Economic Forum states: “Finally, it is significant that all stakeholders across the value chain come together and contribute towards achieving […]
AAPS Asks Ninth Circuit to Stop “Implicit Bias” CME Mandate in California
On Thursday August 29 AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly filed an amicus brief asking the Ninth Circuit to reverse a lower court ruling that incorrectly upheld California AB 241. AB 241 was enacted in 2019 to […]
AAPS News August 2024 – Sovereignty
Volume 80, no. 8 August 2024 The word “sovereign” does not appear in the U.S. Constitution, but the U.S. was clearly founded to be independent and self-governing. Jeremy Rabkin writes: “‘Would we be far wrong,’ […]
AAPS Endorses Dr. Rosenwasser for Hospital Board
AAPS is honored to announce our endorsement of Tamzin Rosenwasser, MD, for a position on the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board, to fix problems that jeopardize patient care. In a race that has attracted national attention, […]
2024 Nominating Committee Report
The slate to be presented at the AAPS 81st Annual Meeting is: President-elect: George Smith, MDSecretary: Lawrence Huntoon, MD, PhDTreasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, MD Directors:
‘Disparate-Impact’ Thinking Is Destroying Medicine
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 […]
AAPS News July 2024 – Lawfare
Volume 80, no. 7 July 2024 Lawfare is the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent. It is a type of warfare. According to the website lawfaremedia.org, “The name Lawfare refers both to the use of […]
R.I.P. Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. – Valiant Champion of Medical Freedom
Today we have some very difficult news to share. Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD, a longtime member of the AAPS family, a true heroine of American medicine, and valiant defender of the patient-physician relationship, passed away […]
