Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, author of the Complete Lives System for rationing care to the elderly, has written an open letter praising Dr. Anthony Fauci, which is featured on Medscape.com. The letter signed by about 300 physicians, mostly academics, states that “through HIV, Ebola, and now COVID, he has unswervingly served the United States guiding the […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) condemns the continued hoarding by the federal government of hydroxychloroquine, which it has kept in a stockpile while expensive new medications for Covid remain mostly unavailable. The first 10 million doses of the new Pfizer medication Paxlovid ordered by the federal government will not be available until […]
You may be asking yourself, will this ever end? The graph shows the rising incidence of COVID in both vaccinated and unvaccinated in Iceland. The Omicron variant is on the march. Everyone may eventually get it, perhaps without any symptoms. A few weeks ago, home test kits for COVID were easily obtained at your local […]
In response to calls for doubling down on costly failed public health strategies, the Arizona State Chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) issued a statement that “as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on into 2022, we should not keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. If […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) applauds and endorses an amicus brief submitted Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court by Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, which strongly opposes Biden’s vaccine mandate on caregivers connected with Medicare or Medicaid. Biden’s vaccine mandate will interfere with care of many patients in rural America, states AAPS. “The […]
Now that Omicron has appeared on the scene, and mask mandates are being reinstituted, are you bringing back your old masks? Some places are now requiring N95 masks, which are claimed to remove 95% of particles above a certain size—if and only if properly fitted. This is a process that takes about 15 minutes. Men […]
Many physicians sense that something is just not right about what is happening in medicine, states Jenny Powell, M.D., who became president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) in October. “Now many of my colleagues find themselves at a crossroad, feeling alone and confused,” she writes in the winter issue of the […]
The early 1990s movement called “evidence-based medicine” or EBM, full of the noble intention of incorporating high quality research into clinical practice, has displaced the doctor-patient unit as the ultimate decision-making authority and encourages totalitarian medicine, writes Richard Amerling, M.D., in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. “Most doctors have […]
There is an adage that says many cases are won or lost in the process of voir dire or jury selection. Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., who has been an expert witness in many trials concerning sham peer review, explains how the process works, in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. […]
The American Medical Association (AMA) cannot claim to be the single voice of all physicians, since only 15 to 18 percent of doctors in the United States are paying members, writes Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. “Despite its Code of Medical Ethics, the AMA’s […]