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The '''Association of American Physicians and Surgeons''' is a conservative association of [[physician]]s, medical professionals and students, patients and others[http://www.aapsonline.org/membership.php] founded in [[1943]].[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,933370,00.html] According to the AAPS's website the organization is ''"dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the [[Hippocratic Oath|Oath of Hippocrates]] and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine."''<ref>[http://www.aapsonline.org/ AAPS Online]</ref> The motto of the AAPS is ''omnia pro aegroto'' which means "all for the patient." The group had 4000 members per 2005. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1090918,00.html]
AAPS helped appeal the conviction of Virginia internist Dr. [[William Hurwitz]], who was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after 16 former patients testified against him [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083911-2,00.html]. In 2004, they filed a brief on behalf of [[Rush Limbaugh]][http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/21/141518.shtml]. In 1975, they went to court to block enforcement of a new Social Security amendment that would monitor the treatment given Medicare and Medicaid patients.[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913792,00.html]. More recently they have been involved in litigation against [[HIPAA]], arguing that it is violates the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution by allowing government access to certain medical data without having a warrant. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4365/is_200110/ai_n15252165].
==Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons==
The [http://www.jpands.org/ Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons] (JPandS), until 2003 named the [http://haciendapub.com/issues.html Medical Sentinel] [http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/journalalert.htm], is the journal of the association. It's mission statement includes "…a commitment to publishing scholarly articles in defense of the practice of private medicine, the pursuit of integrity in medical research…Political correctness, dogmatism and orthodoxy will be challenged with logical reasoning, valid data and the scientific method.” Articles in the journal are are subject to a double-blind peer-review process [http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/authors.pdf].
The journal is not listed in the major journal databases of PubMed[ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pubmed/J_Medline.txt] nor [http://scientific.thomson.com/products/wos/ Web-of-Science]. [[Quackwatch]] lists it among untrustworthy nonrecommended periodicals.<ref>Stephen Barrett, M.D: [http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecperiodical.html Nonrecommended Periodicals]</ref>
[[WHO]] found that a 2003 article published in the journal had "a number of limitations which undermine the conclusions drawn by the authors" [http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/topics/thiomersal/statement/en/index.html].
Investigative journalist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Deer Brian Deer] states that the journal "is barely credible as an independent forum for such material. No objective medical scientist with important information of any standard would submit it to such a publication, unless they couldn't get it published anywhere else".[http://briandeer.com/wakefield/private-eye.htm]
==References==
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AAPS helped appeal the conviction of Virginia internist Dr. [[William Hurwitz]], who was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after 16 former patients testified against him [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083911-2,00.html]. In 2004, they filed a brief on behalf of [[Rush Limbaugh]][http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/21/141518.shtml]. In 1975, they went to court to block enforcement of a new Social Security amendment that would monitor the treatment given Medicare and Medicaid patients.[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913792,00.html]. More recently they have been involved in litigation against [[HIPAA]], arguing that it is violates the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution by allowing government access to certain medical data without having a warrant. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4365/is_200110/ai_n15252165].
==Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons==
The [http://www.jpands.org/ Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons] (JPandS), until 2003 named the [http://haciendapub.com/issues.html Medical Sentinel] [http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/journalalert.htm], is the journal of the association. It's mission statement includes "…a commitment to publishing scholarly articles in defense of the practice of private medicine, the pursuit of integrity in medical research…Political correctness, dogmatism and orthodoxy will be challenged with logical reasoning, valid data and the scientific method.” Articles in the journal are are subject to a double-blind peer-review process [http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/authors.pdf].
The journal is not listed in the major journal databases of PubMed[ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pubmed/J_Medline.txt] nor [http://scientific.thomson.com/products/wos/ Web-of-Science]. [[Quackwatch]] lists it among untrustworthy nonrecommended periodicals.<ref>Stephen Barrett, M.D: [http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecperiodical.html Nonrecommended Periodicals]</ref>
[[WHO]] found that a 2003 article published in the journal had "a number of limitations which undermine the conclusions drawn by the authors" [http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/topics/thiomersal/statement/en/index.html].
Investigative journalist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Deer Brian Deer] states that the journal "is barely credible as an independent forum for such material. No objective medical scientist with important information of any standard would submit it to such a publication, unless they couldn't get it published anywhere else".[http://briandeer.com/wakefield/private-eye.htm]
==References==
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