Juliette Madrigal, MD
May 10, 2013
If you want a say in the way politics impacts your practice and your professional livelihood, the AAPS represent the best investment in time and money you can make. Right now doctors are under attack from many different fronts. Our freedoms and liberties are being whittled away and restrictions are being put upon doctors from those outside of medicine as... read more
Apr 23, 2013
The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) has filed suit today in federal court against the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) for restraining trade and causing a reduction in access by patients to their physicians. The ABMS has entered into agreements with 24 other corporations to impose enormous “recertification” burdens on physicians, which are not justified by any... read more
May 10, 2013
This week, a new lawsuit raising issues not addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court in its ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or “ObamaCare”) was filed by Texas physician Steve F. Hotze, M.D., and his business. The case is Hotze v. Sebelius, 4:13-cv-01318 (S.D. Texas). In its unexpected ruling that the insurance mandates in ObamaCare are... read more
Andrew Schlafly & Dr. Paul Kempen at MOC Debate
May 7, 2013
Volume 69, no. 5 May 2013 American physicians have long been acting like the faithful horse Boxer on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, working harder and harder for less and less to sustain a dysfunctional system. They are also treated like scapegoats and cash cows for government, third-party payers, and a self-appointed ruling elite intent on dictating standards and judging the... read more
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD
May 6, 2013
By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. When advance health care directives (“living wills”) were popularized, the guiding principle was to allow patients to choose to “die with dignity.” But one man’s dignity is another man’s poison. Surveys suggest that half of those with a serious chronic illness prefer to die at home. The other half prefer treatment in hospitals. Advance... read more
Alieta Eck, MD
Apr 29, 2013
By: Alieta Eck MD, On April 26, 2013, The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) was delivered a shot across the bow. Physicians who had been laboring under increasing burdens and requirements have finally said “enough is enough.” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) served this Board with a lawsuit in the federal court in Trenton, NJ. The... read more
Jane Orient, MD
Apr 22, 2013
By Jane M. Orient, M.D., As cardiovascular surgeon John Natale, M.D., sits in federal prison, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard his appeal on April 18. After a seven-year investigation, Dr. Natale was indicted for Medicare fraud. Unlike the majority of federal defendants, who feel compelled to cave in by signing a plea bargain even when innocent,... read more
Alieta Eck, MD
Apr 22, 2013
AAPS Immediate-Past President Alieta Eck, MD, attended the Benjamin Rush Society debate in Philadelphia on April 20, 2013 on Maintenance of Certification and compiled the following summary: This debate laid out the case that ending counterproductive Maintenance Of Certification is a worthy goal for the medical profession. Resolved: "Maintenance of Certification requirements fail to improve the quality of medical care... read more
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