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 […]
On Dec 27, 2021, AAPS, along with Jeffrey Singer, M.D., filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to reverse the unjust conviction of Dr. Xiulu Ruan. “The question presented, on which the circuits are deeply divided, is whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course […]
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 […]
On Oct 29, the Food and Drug Administration extended its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to include the vaccination of children aged 5–11. Naturally, parents are concerned and will have many questions. In the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Steven Hatfill, M.D., reviews the most relevant medical […]
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a progressive genetic disorder causing severe disability and early death. Promising animal studies and earlier investigations led to a trial of intravenous stem cell therapy in an 11-year-old boy, described in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons by Darah Mohammed Pourakbar, M.S., Kipp Van Camp, D.O., […]