The exorbitant costs of a tooth ache in the Emergency Department of a hospital. The local newspaper reports a complaint by a 60-year-old lady of waiting one hour for a bus to take her to the hospital to investigate a toothache. Since hospitals don’t have dentists on duty at night and probably not in the […]

Physicians, nurses, and other professions are never line officers in the military or other organizations. They are always advisory to the chain of command. This is as it should be. Physicians do not make good senators, or judges, administrators, executive officers, including CEO of a country. At the present time we have two physicians trying […]

I’ve always purchased Hanes Briefs with the transverse fly which I felt gave greater security. In the past the local Penney’s store carried them. I was recently in their store refreshing my supply for the year. Their Hanes only had the diagonal fly. Their other brands also had only the diagonal fly. When a clerk […]

Last month we were enlightened by a patient who referred to his phallus by the vernacular for “Richard.” Our family had a different vernacular for a guy’s phallus. As near as I can research our family’s history it started when my father and mother’s brothers were helping each other in the barn, garage and tool […]

Many Americans call the IRS to verify if a cost is deductible. The IRS hung up on 8 million citizens this tax season. Did this prevent many citizens from making a legitimate deduction to reduce their taxes and IRS found a new revenue source? Or did many citizens then take the deduction anyway and gamble […]

By Michael A. Haberman, MD, An Israeli M.D. The Voice of a physician in another part of the world A Reflection Of What Is Happening To The USA—In The Eyes Of Others! Israeli doctor says Obama has a mental disorder— Labels him a pathological narcissist. No greater insanity than electing one says Dr. Sam Vaknin an Israeli psychologist. […]

SPEAKING HONESTLY AND OPENLY ABOUT OUR BROKEN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM SINCE 2002 The mission of Authentic Medicine is to rediscover how much the art of medicine means and allow us to reconnect to our roots once again. It is about fighting back against those things that are taking us away from the direct care of patients […]

Advocates Applaud Senate Passage of S. 743 November 14, 2012 by Filed under Campaign, Congress & Courts November 14, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Advocates Applaud Senate Passage of S. 743 After Decade Long Campaign, Federal Whistleblower Bill Sent to President’s Desk After a decade long campaign by the Make It Safe Coalition to restore federal whistleblower protections, we […]

Retaliation against a Physician Whistleblower By Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D. Editor, JAPS Dr. Michael W. Fitzgibbons, an infectious diseases specialist and former chief of staff at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, California, is not a man who simply walks away and gives up, even in the face of grave injustices inflicted upon him […]

Dr. Barbara Bellar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbFrAAV3-o&feature=youtu.be We are gifted with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t; which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people without adding a single new Doctor; but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents; written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it; […]