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Some Wisconsin doctors have offered, at a public event, to write sickness excuses on request for protesting teachers, according to ABC News. A spokeswoman said that they knew they could “get in trouble,” but would take the risk because “teachers have no choice.” The teachers’ choice is to go to work, or go without pay and risk being fired. “It’s the same choice faced by everyone in the world who can’t use someone else’s earnings to pay the bills,” said Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). “Writing a phony sickness excuse is...

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) became the first medical society to sue to overturn the newly enacted health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). AAPS sued Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. ....................... Congress recognized that PPACA cannot be funded without the insurance mandates, and will become unaffordable without them. Court action is necessary "to preserve individual liberty" and to prevent PPACA from bankrupting the United States generally, and Medicare and Social Security, specifically.

Wednesday April 7, 2010 U.S. Medical Society Sues to Overturn ObamaCare WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has filed a lawsuit against the newly enacted health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), making them the first U.S. medical society to take legal action against the sweeping health care overhaul.The AAPS filed suit March 26 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “If the PPACA goes unchallenged, then it spells the end of freedom in medicine as we know it,” said Jane Orient, M.D.,...

TUCSON, Ariz. (970 WFLA) - The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) became the first medical society to sue to overturn the newly enacted health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). AAPS sued Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (AAPS v. Sebelius et al.). “If the PPACA goes unchallenged, then it spells the end of freedom in medicine as we know it,” observed Jane Orient, M.D., the Executive Director of AAPS. “Courts should not allow this massive intrusion into the practice of medicine and the rights of patients.” “There will...

Politics: The administration stages a photo-op with handpicked doctors who support its health care reform. Fortunately, most doctors still believe that the first rule of medicine is to do no harm. It would seem some doctors still make house calls. Some 150 of them made one at the White House Monday in an attempt to give a booster shot to the administration's chaotic and stalled health care reform drive. Rather than a grass-roots uprising of physicians, this was a classic case of AstroTurfing. Attendance was by invitation only, and 40 of the 150 were said to be members of Doctors...

The House health-care reform bill proposes to decrease hospital visits by establishing a “medical home pilot program” for elderly and disabled Americans. Such a medical home would not require a physician to be on the staff, and therefore could be run solely by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Medical homes also would practice “evidence-based” medicine, which advocates only the use of medical treatments that are supported by effectiveness research. But physicians’ groups say the legislation could lead to restrictions on which treatments may be used for certain conditions, despite the fact that some patients might require a unique or unconventional...

As President Obama pushes for passage of his first major domestic policy change, some physicians are waging an all-out war against a health care reform bill they say amounts to nothing more than socialized medicine. Some doctors charge the bill will lead to inferior patient care as physician offices around the country triple their patient lists and become forced to ration care. "This is war," Dr. George Watson, a Kansas physician and president-elect of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, told FOXNews.com Thursday. "This is a bureaucratic boondoggle to grab control of health care. Everything that has been proposed...

According to a study by the Coma Science Group of the University of Liège, Belgium, up to half the patients in an acute vegetative state regain some level of consciousness. Results of the study are also consistent with previous studies showing that at least 40% of patients deemed to be in a persistent vegetative state are misdiagnosed. “The study showed how very hard it is to disentangle the minimally conscious state from the vegetative state,” says Dr. Steven Laureys. And in cases that health workers diagnosed as minimally conscious, 10% were actually communicating functionally. Comparing past studies on this...

CONTACT: Kathryn Serkes (202) 333-3855 kaserkes@att.net March 2, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Medical Journal: Autism Rates Decline as Mercury Removed from Childhood Vaccines Independent Analysis Refutes Institute of Medicine Claims of “No Relationship,” While Mercury Still Used in Flu & Other Vaccines TUCSON, AZ -- A new study shows that autism may be linked after all to the use of mercury in childhood vaccines, despite government’s previous claims to the contrary. An article in the March 10, 2006 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS.org) shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase...

With school starting up again many parents are inquiring as to whether the schools will start implementing the new federally created mental health testing programs in the schools that so alarmed the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons that they issued a statement decrying it as a "dangerous scheme that will heap even more coercive pressure on parents to medicate children with potentially dangerous side effects". Any new information concerning implementation of the programs and/or groups fighting these intiatives would be appreciated.

One evening last autumn, I sat long hours with a European acquaintance while he expounded a politico-economic doctrine which seemed sound as a nut and in which I could find no defect. At the end, he said with great earnestness: ``I have a mission to the masses. I feel that I am called to get the ear of the people. I shall devote the rest of my life to spreading my doctrine far and wide among the populace. What do you think?'' An embarrassing question in any case, and doubly so under the circumstances, because my acquaintance is a very...

AAPS Doctors: Sen. Kerry Owes 48 Million Pain Patients an Apology; Dems Don't 'Feel Your Pain' 10/10/03 8:10:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Kathryn Serkes of the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, 202-333-3855; e-mail: kathryn@aapsonline.org; web: http://www.aapsonline.org WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Kathryn Serkes, policy counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), issued the following statement in response to comments made by Sen. John Kerry during the Democratic debate on October 9, 2003: "Sen. Kerry owes an apology to the more than 48 million Americans who suffer chronic pain. Few of them would...

AAPS: Political Pressure Prevents Women from Learning about Abortion Risks; Politics Trumps Science in Abortion, Breast Cancer Link 8/28/03 2:00:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Health Reporter Contact: Kathryn Serkes, 202-333-3855 or kaserkes@att.net for the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Scientists, women's groups, and the media have consistently suppressed or ignored research that establishes a direct link between abortion and breast cancer for their own political purposes. Further, women considering abortion are not given true informed consent about the real risks of the procedure as a result of withholding this evidence. Those...

CONTROLLING THE SUBSTANCES Doctors' group blasts administration Claims White House punishing physicians for misdeeds of patients Posted: October 2, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A physicians' advocacy group is blasting the Bush administration for its pledge to prosecute physicians even if their patients are responsible for the abuse of pain medications they've been prescribed. "Physicians are being threatened, impoverished, delicensed and imprisoned for prescribing in good faith with the intention of relieving pain," said Kathryn Serkes, a spokeswoman for the Tucson, Arizona-based American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. In a Monday press conference at the...