Damar Hamlin Matters to You
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Millions of people saw Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapse on the football field on January 2. He was tackled, fell down, and at first stood up. Even to aficionados […]
Did the Grinch Steal Christmas in Your Town?
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The killjoys who cancelled a lot of Dr. Seuss’s delightful books didn’t get around to How the Grinch Stole Christmas—yet. But comparing what I have seen this season with the […]
AAPS Files Brief in Case Reviewing Hospital Refusing Patient Use of Ivermectin
On December 2, 2022 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin granted a motion by AAPS to file an amicus brief in Gahl vs. Aurora. The Court is currently reviewing this case concerning whether a hospital may […]
The Lopsided Politicization of Society—and Medicine
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Most Americans are aware that the nation is deeply divided, and that politics is intruding everywhere. They seem to think that we have two equal opposing forces, as shown by […]
COVID-19 vaccine: Should I worry about visual symptoms?
If you listen to the radio, you will be hearing ads about boosters or updated COVID vaccines. But unlike with drug ads, there is no long list of rare side effects, or advice to “call […]
AAPS News December 2022 – A Trans World
Volume 78, no. 12 “Orwellian” is an apt term to describe the total surveillance in our world. But the radical transformation from traditional culture and morality (“Victorianism”) to modernism began decades before Orwell. The starkest […]
What a Strange Time to Be a Child
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ Cultures and societies progress, generally in a more civil, moral, ethical direction. Look at our evolution from practices in ancient Greece. Several hundred years ago B.C., Greek […]
AAPS News November 2022 – Iatrogenocide
Volume 78, no. 11 The term “iatrogenesis” (doctor-generated) was introduced into social science in 1976 by Ivan Illich in his book Medical Nemesis. Illich attacks the overmedicalization of society. This is part of the excessive professionalizing and […]
What Should a Doctor Do on Election Day?
Jane M. Orient, M.D. When I was an idealistic young student in junior high civics class—when we studied the Constitution, so you know it was long ago—I had the idea you should vote for the […]
FDA’s Catastrophic Safety and Quality Oversight Failures on COVID Vaccines
by Elizabeth Lee Vliet MD – https://www.truthforhealth.org/ Since its inception in 1934, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulatory to oversee drug and medical products manufacturing processes and quality control to protect the public […]
