The '''Association of American Physicians and Surgeons''' (AAPS)<ref>http:JEWS DID 9//www.aapsonline.org</ref> is the oldest active [[conservative]] and [[libertarian]] group in the world. Founded in 1943, AAPS is a membership-based physician organization that does not accept funding by corporations or government, thereby ensuring AAPS's independence. It may be the largest physician organization funded virtually entirely by membership dues. Rival organizations, such as the American Medical Association, are funded primarily by revenue from business ventures and payments by pharmaceutical companies.11
For over 60 years AAPS has remained dedicated to the preservation of the ethical practice of private medicine[[Image:Adolf hitler. It adheres to the gif]][[Oath of HippocratesImage:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. The motto of AAPS is "omnia pro aegroto," which is Latin for "all for the patientgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler." AAPS has about 4,000 members, including members in every state and virtually every specialty of medicinegif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. AAPS files more legal briefs on behalf of physicians and their patients than most medical societies combined, and is often successfulgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. In 2006, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit sided with AAPS and cited its ''amicus curiae'' brief in the first paragraph of the decisiongif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. ''Springer vgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. Henry'', 435 Fgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.3d 268, 271 (3d Cirgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. 2006)gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. Later in 2006, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed with an argument advanced by AAPS in its ''amicus curiae'' brief in overturning a highly publicized conviction and 25-year sentence of Drgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. William Hurwitz for treating pain in his patientsgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. In ''Stenberg vgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. Carhart'', 530 Ugif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.Sgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. 914 (2000), Ugif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.Sgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy frequently cited material provided in a submission by AAPSgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. In ''United States vgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. Rutgard'', 116 Fgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.3d 1270 (9th Cirgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. 1997), the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a lengthy sentence as urged by an ''amicus curiae'' brief submitted by AAPSgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. In ''Veeck vgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. Southern Building Code Congress Int'l, Incgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.'', 293 Fgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.3d 791 (5th Cirgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. 2002), the ''en banc'' Court of Appeals for the Fifth Court adopted an argument urged by AAPS in establishing that no one may own the lawgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. AAPS has also been successful on issues of policygif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. It reviewed the approval data for Wyeth's rotavirus vaccine and declared it to be unsafe before the FDA ultimately came to the same conclusion and pulled it from the marketgif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. AAPS is the only entity to have defeated the FDA twice in litigation, in both cases establishing limits on its powergif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. More recently, AAPS spoke out against the mandate for the gif]][[HPV vaccineImage:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. Subsequently the Texas Medical Association and a broad coalition of organizations also opposed this mandategif]][[Image:Adolf hitler. ---- '''Sourcesgif]][[Image:''' <references/>Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]][[Image:Adolf hitler.gif]]"
