Dear AAPS Virginia Members and Friends, Delegate Dave A. LaRock has introduced a good resolution, HJ 5002, that will be heard in the Virginia House of Delegates Rules Committee on Thursday morning, August 27, 2020, […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) requested by Mayo Clinic for use of plasma from patients who recovered from COVID-19 to treat hospitalized patients. “The tipping point for […]
August 9, 2020 Dear Commissioner Rettig and Deputy Commissioner Lough, Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the proposed IRS rules titled “Certain Medical Care Arrangements,” REG-109755-19. AAPS is a membership organization of physicians […]
Never has politics been so deeply involved in decisions that should be between a physician and patient. It is normal for physicians to listen to patients and colleagues, read the literature, write a prescription for […]
I’m sure you would not approve of denying effective treatment to black patients. COVID-19 is hitting black patients hardest. What can be done? A black doctor, an immigrant from Cameroon, is treating COVID-19 patients in […]
The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS), the voice for independent physicians since 1943, gives its strongest endorsement to Republican grassroots candidate Noel Collis, M.D., in Minnesota Congressional District 7. Dr. Collis is running to help stop […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends, Back in June the Internal Revenue Service proposed long-anticipated regulations, stemming from Sec. 6 of a June 2019 Executive Order signed by President Trump. In large part the new rules […]
We’re supposed to follow “evidence-based medicine” these days, but there is no firm evidence to support the masking and “social distancing” mandates being imposed throughout the land. CDC chief Robert Redfield asserts his opinion that […]
Arizona is said to be “suffering the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the U.S.” Gov. Doug Ducey is being accused of re-opening the state too fast, without adequate masking or other requirements. Now, still-surviving small businesses […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented disruptive effect on medicine as well as the economy, writes Jane M. Orient, M.D., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. She compares […]
