With improvements in technology, telemedicine has become increasingly popular, and increased 154% in March 2020 compared with 2019 because of the pandemic. Yet despite its advantages, virtual care cannot reach the highest level of medical care that is only achievable through direct physical interaction with patients, writes Paul Dibble, M.D., in the summer issue of […]
Of the 700 physicians responding to an internet survey by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), nearly 60 percent said they were not “fully vaccinated” against COVID. This contrasts with the claim by the American Medical Association that 96 percent of practicing physicians are fully vaccinated. This was based on 300 respondents. Neither […]
Not long ago, board certification of physicians simply documented achievement of a certain level of specialty training, but recently it has become time-limited. There is a now a multi-million-dollar industry that imposes recurring onerous, expensive requirements on physicians. Constant recertification (Maintenance of Certification or MOC®) has become a cult, writes anesthesiologist Paul Martin Kempen, M.D., […]
Besides causing much illness and death, the SARS-CoV-2 virus with its COVID-19 disease has been a major ally of those seeking to impose a radical collectivist ideology and to expand their control of our lives at any cost, writes Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. […]
Controversy has erupted concerning the thousands of emails to and from Dr. Anthony Fauci that were released in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from Buzzfeed and the Washington Post. Dr. Fauci, age 80, is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and has been at the National […]
To meet the Biden Administration’s goal of having at last one COVID shot in the arms of 70 percent of Americans by July 4, vaccine hesitancy must be overcome, notes the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Nearly 40 percent or more of members of certain groups express reluctance to get a COVID jab, […]
Are you immune to COVID? You probably don’t know. You do know whether you have been jabbed or not. But the whole emphasis now is getting bioengineered foreign genetic material—messenger RNA surrounded by lipid nanoparticles by Pfizer or Moderna, or DNA carried in an adenovirus by J&J or AstraZeneca—into everyone’s arm. People are rarely being […]
AAPS thanks Gov. Doug Ducey for signing SB 1416, sponsored by Sen. Nancy Barto, into law to help protect patient access to treatment during a pandemic. AAPS too often hears concerns from physicians in Arizona, and across the U.S., about the potential for facing medical board discipline for helping COVID patients using off-label medications. In […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons thanks Arizona Governor Doug Ducey for signing SB 1271 into law on May 10, 2021. AAPS also extends it gratitude to the bill’s author, Senator Nancy Barto. SB 1271 puts in place commonsense reforms that benefit benefit patient care facilities, medical graduates, and patients in Arizona in both […]
If you or someone you love is hoping to have a baby, special caution is needed about any type of medical treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is not giving clear advice. CDC head Rochelle Walensky said at a White House briefing that the “CDC recommends that pregnant people receive the COVID-19 […]