On December 2, 2022 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin granted a motion by AAPS to file an amicus brief in Gahl vs. Aurora. The Court is currently reviewing this case concerning whether a hospital may block a patient from obtaining potentially lifesaving medications from the patient’s own physician. In its...
Dear AAPS Members and Friends in New Jersey: The New Jersey legislature is considering allowing non-physicians (specifically, Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs)*, including nurse anesthetists) who have significantly less training than MDs and DOs, to provide medical care to patients without supervision by doctors. This is a step in the wrong direction. Supporters...
This Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 1pm, the NJ Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee is holding a hearing on S3240, a bill that aims to push “any person not currently enrolled” into the state’s vaccine tracking registry. The tracking registry can be accessed by a wide range of entities: “health...
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD – https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/ Cultures and societies progress, generally in a more civil, moral, ethical direction. Look at our evolution from practices in ancient Greece. Several hundred years ago B.C., Greek elites openly participated in pederasty, meaning “boy love.” This was a relationship between an older...
Save the dates for our 80th Annual Meeting to be held October 26-28, 2023 in Fort Worth, Texas! The meeting will convene at 6pm the evening of Thursday, Oct 26, 2023 and adjourn at noon on Saturday October 28, 2023. Location: Marriott Hotel & Golf Club at Champions Circle3300 Championship...
Update, November 14, 2022: AAPS files opposition to motion to dismiss: https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aapsedfnd-v-abim-abog-abfm-dhs-opposition-motion-dismiss-11-14-2022.pdf The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Educational Foundation (AAPS) filed a lawsuit today in the federal Southern District of Texas, against three medical special boards for their threatened retaliation against physicians who speak out on matters of...
Volume 78, no. 11 The term “iatrogenesis” (doctor-generated) was introduced into social science in 1976 by Ivan Illich in his book Medical Nemesis. Illich attacks the overmedicalization of society. This is part of the excessive professionalizing and bureaucratization of modern life, which limits freedom and justice, and corrupts and incapacitates individuals. Illich...
Volume 78, no. 10 October 2022 President Biden famously said: “For those brave right-wing Americans…if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something little more than a gun” (https://tinyurl.com/58mmvn5j). A gun is also of no use against SWAT teams in riot gear, search warrants,...
Jane M. Orient, M.D. When I was an idealistic young student in junior high civics class—when we studied the Constitution, so you know it was long ago—I had the idea you should vote for the person, not the party. Now I am older and increasingly cynical. A lot of the...
by Elizabeth Lee Vliet MD – https://www.truthforhealth.org/ Since its inception in 1934, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulatory to oversee drug and medical products manufacturing processes and quality control to protect the public from unsafe products. Recent research revelations from career pharma insider whistleblowers, Alexandra Latypova and Hedley...
