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The Truth About “Medicare As We Know It”

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.: If anyone proposes a substantial reform to Medicare, you can be sure that demagogues will immediately wail that it will end “Medicare as we know it.” It is also absolutely […]

Strong American Women versus Julia

By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD The mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers that Americans remember each May are strikingly different from “Julia,” the star of Obama’s political campaign. We cannot see helpless Julia as Molly Pitcher, stepping […]

Doctors Eager to Empower Patients, Not Bureaucrats

AAPS issued the following press release today marking the conclusion of the 1st Take Back the Profession doctors coalition meeting this past weekend in San Diego. Physicians need to work with their patients to take […]

AAPS News May 2012 – Unelected

Volume 68, no. 5 May 2012 In an astonishing attack on the U.S. Supreme Court, Barack Obama called the justices as “an unelected group of people” who could “somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed […]

Unnecessary Medical Testing?

By Alieta Eck, MD, The American Board of Internal Medicine is on a mission to curtail unnecessary medical testing, suggesting that physicians order too much and thus drive up the cost of care. Dr. Christine […]