Jane M. Orient, M.D. 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 and a staff physician at the Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital. 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 currently president of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Since 1988, she has been chairman of the Public Health Committee of the Pima County (Arizona) Medical Society. She is the author of YOUR Doctor Is NotIn: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare, and the second through fourth editions of Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosispublished by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. She authored books for schoolchildren, Professor Klugimkopfās Old-Fashioned English Grammar and Professor Klugimkopfās Spelling Method, published by Robinson Books, and coauthored two novels published as Kindle books,Ā Neomorts and Moonshine. More than 100 of her papers have been published in the scientific and popular literature on a variety of subjects including risk assessment, natural and technological hazards and nonhazards, and medical economics and ethics. She is the editor of AAPS News, the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter, and Civil Defense Perspectives, and is the managing editor of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
There Is No New Normal
Dr. Jane Orient: If we let the experts prevail, will we have a brave new happy transhuman utopia? Or a pile of rubble?
Dr. Jane Orient: The worst, possibly existential, threat is the stealthy, invisible one that multiplies exponentially. Biological threats proliferateāuntil they run out of susceptible victims.
Dr. Jane Orient: To this Boomer, it appears that the younger generation is blaming us for all the Evil in the world, from their perch of āwokeā moral superiority.
Dr. Jane Orient: Regardless of oneās opinion about President Trump, a self-appointed āIndependent Expert Panel for Presidential Fitnessā should concern all Americans.
Dr. Jane Orient: Parental outrage might cause a reexamination of vaccine orthodoxy. It also raises the question of where to draw the line against the encroachment of our freedom.
Dr. Jane Orient: Healing the sick is what medicine is about. The politicians who promise to āfix healthcareā can only destroy medicineāwhile bankrupting the country.
Dr. Jane Orient: If you disagree with your private doctor, you can fire him or simply decline to follow his advice. But what if the government is your doctor?
