While few people really like the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or ‘Obamacare’)—even Democrats running for President criticize it, it might require a federal court to actually terminate it, writes attorney Andrew Schlafly in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Read Journal Article: https://jpands.org/vol24no3/schlafly.pdf The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons […]
Increasingly expansive and coercive vaccine mandates are placing the supposed collective good of society above the right of patients or their parents to give or withhold informed consent, writes Jane M. Orient, M.D., in a guest editorial in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Read Journal Article: https://jpands.org/vol24no3/orient.pdf Public health […]
The antibiotic era began in the 1940s, and with these “miracle drugs” it appeared that mankind was winning what was perceived to be a war on microbes. “But we overlooked or underestimated their ability to adapt rapidly under the selection pressure of antibiotics, writes Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the fall issue of the Journal of […]
Patients who receive a “surprise medical bill” are surprised because they thought they had insurance, and that the insurer was supposed to pay. As Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., explains in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, most people do not have true medical insurance. What they have is a pre-paid medical […]
In response to the rising rate of drug overdose deaths, 49 states had a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) by 2014. By requiring physicians to report all prescriptions for controlled drugs, and to consult the database before prescribing, state agencies hoped to stop “doctor shopping,” writes John Lilly, M.B.A., D.O., in the summer issue of […]
For patients who do not want all their medical data on the internet in these days of frequent cybercrime, Philip Eskew, D.O., J.D., M.B.A. offers some suggestions in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Under the HITECH Act (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) of 2009, patients […]
In 2003, 40% of physicians working at hospitals were independent. Now fewer than one in five physicians are independent, writes Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., in the spring issue of in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. A 2018 Survey of America’s Physicians reported that 57.5% of physicians “do not agree that hospital employment of […]
Physicians Health Programs (PHPs) are part of the medical regulatory-therapeutic complex intended to protect the public from impaired physicians. Initially, they were supposed to provide a benevolent means to treat physicians with substance-use disorders and return them to the workplace. However, lacking professional or governmental oversight, or an enforceable code of ethics, they may now […]
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or physician-assisted death (PAD) are now receiving strong public support, writes Jeffrey Hall Dobken, M.D., M.P.H., in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. He traces the history of the acceptance of PAS/PAD in public policy and law to the ascendancy of “lifeboat ethics.” Read journal article: http://www.jpands.org/vol23no4/dobken.pdf […]
Of the more than $3 trillion dollars per year spent worldwide on health services, an untold amount is drained through corruption, according to the non-governmental anticorruption watchdog Transparency International. Albert Fisher, M.D., comments on the sources of corruption and proposed remedies in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Fisher, a family physician […]