May 24, 2023 To: New Jersey Department of Health Re: Comments on “Proposed Rule Revisions to NJAC 8:57” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a professional association of physicians in all types of practices and specialties across the United States, welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on potential...
Curtis W. Caine, Sr., M.D. explains the Constitution of the United States in this 34-article series published in the Medical Sentinel The Constitution of these American States United is their simple, plainly-worded founding charter. It is the supreme Law of the Land. Every act of every citizen (in and out...
Volume 79, no. 5 May 2023 With enormous numbers of pixels, one can create images that look indistinguishable from reality. Virtual reality is now pervasive in entertainment. In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science-fiction novel Snow Crash, the virtual entertainment was so immersive that people could essentially live within it. He named it...
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. From the viewpoint of a home-school grammar teacher (since I was in seventh grade), a pronoun is just a short word that takes the place of a noun, so that you don’t have to keep saying the noun over and over. Pronouns do not define...
Volume 79, no. 4 April 2023 If religion is defined as “ultimate concern,” then even committed atheists have a religion. Our Founders were opposed to a federal established church, but the “wall of separation” between church and state is only being applied to recognized religion—not to totalitarian, godless ideology. Religions...
Dear AAPS Members and Friends in Florida: Employers, licensing and certification boards, hospitals, insurers, and other entities who seek to exert control over the practice of medicine must not retaliate against physicians because of their religious beliefs or expression of medical opinions. These entities should not be able to force...
In November 2021 the Biden Administration issued vaccine mandates for workers at hospitals and other facilities that serve patients in Medicare and Medicaid. The mandates have done far more harm than good, and should be ended immediately. At a time when the shortage of health workers is already severe, thousands or more...
In case the radio ads for COVID shots are not up to date, there have been new developments. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn authorization to use monovalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. It now authorizes use of the current bivalent vaccines (original and omicron...
Instead of using their enormous power for the purpose of protecting the public, the Texas Medical Board’s (TMB) politically-motivated investigations mean patients in the Lone Star State are at risk of losing access to good physicians. AAPS has been raising awareness of such abuses for over a decade and has even sued the TMB...
AAPS Members and Friends in Florida: HB 1403 will be heard before the Florida House Health Regulation Subcommittee on Monday, April 3rd at 10:30am. On Tuesday, April 4th, at 8:30am, the Florida Senate Health Policy committee will be hearing the related Senate version SB 1580. What do these bills aim to...
