Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is an association of physicians founded in 1943. According to the AAPS's website the organization is "dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine."^[1] The motto of the AAPS is omnia pro aegroto which means "all for the patient."

According to the Internet web-site of the British/United Kingdom and British/United Kingdom-based mainly-medicine-focused investigative journalist Mr. Brian Deer of the local Twenty-Twenty Television (programme-production company) (http://briandeer.com/wakefield/private-eye.htm), in a counter-rebuffing statement to a certain fellow local British/U.K. magazine and its anti-M.M.R. vaccination-immunisation campaign, in 2004, (he claimed that) the A.A.P.S. of the United States is " ... of a right-wing American fringe group, the Arizona-based Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which campaigns against US vaccination policies. The association is also vocal in opposing moves to combat fraud by private doctors, and medical professional efforts to reduce deaths from domestic firearms. In 2005, Time Magazine reported that the association had only 4,000 members. ... 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.".

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, formerly named the Medical Sentinel, is the journal of the association. Articles in the journal are are subject to a double-blind peer-review process [2]. The journal is not listed in the major journal databases of PubMed[3] nor Web-of-Science.

References

1. ^ "AAPS Online". Retrieved 2006-01-30.