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The Patient Physician Relationship Under ObamaCare

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• published: 31 Mar 2014
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AAPS Capitol Hill Briefing: March 27, 2014 Currently there is a lot of discussion regarding health care exchanges and access to insurance. However, insurance is not care. Even if the exchanges are eventually fixed, they cannot assure access to care. Well before Obamacare the government had forced its way into the patient-physician relationship. Now, the government is looking to dominate the relationship. AAPS members have long fought this invasion and taken their stand for patients' freedom of choice. We invite you to listen to three doctors and hear about their daily interactions with the government from three different points of view: a teaching hospital, a family practice (and charity clinic), and an internal medicine practice that is fully independent of all government programs and third party payers. The patient-physician relationship needs to be a top priority no matter what side of the aisle you are on. Room: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building When: 3:00-4:00pm RSVP: aaps@aapsonline.org Featuring: Dr. Jane Orient Jane M. Orient, MD obtained her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974. She completed an internal medicine residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital and University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals and then became an Instructor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She has been in solo private practice since 1981 and has served as Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989. She is the author of YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare, Sutton's Law (a novel about where the money is in medicine today), and the second through fourth editions of Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis. She is the editor of AAPS News and is the managing editor of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Alieta Eck Alieta Eck, MD graduated from the Rutgers College of Pharmacy in NJ and the St. Louis School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She studied Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ and has been in private practice with her husband, Dr. John Eck, MD in Picataway, NJ since 1988. She has been involved in health care reform since residency and testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress in 2004 about better ways to deliver health care in the United States. In 2003, she and her husband founded the Zarephath Health Center, a free clinic for the poor and uninsured. Dr. Eck is a long time member of the Christian Medical Dental Association and a recent Past President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. In addition, she serves on the advisory board of Christian Care Medishare and is a member of Zarephath Christian Church. She and her husband have five children, one a physician in his residency in ophthalmology. Dr. Richard Amerling Richard Amerling, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and a renowned academic nephrologist at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Amerling studied medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, graduating cum laude in 1981. He completed a medical residency at the New York Hospital Queens and a nephrology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has written and lectured extensively on health care issues and is President-elect of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Amerling is the author of the Physicians' Declaration of Independence and is a seasoned speaker and on-air contributor, recently appearing on the Fox News Channel and a debate moderated by Larry King.