Dr. Jane Orient

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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 Diagnosis published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. She authored books for schoolchildren, Professor Klugimkopf’s Old-Fashioned English Grammar and Professor Klugimkopf’s Spelling Method, published by Robinson Books, and coauthored two novels published as Kindle books, 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.

American Medicine and The 2019 State of the Union Address

Dr. Jane Orient: After his inspiring call to greatness, the Democrat opposition and its allies in the media have virtually declared war on the President and all who support him or his principles.

So What If ACA Is Unconstitutional?

Dr. Jane Orient: All of ACA, which imposes a straitjacket on a previously diverse, state-regulated industry, needs to be declared unconstitutional.

Epidemics, Fear and Denial: How Every American Is Threatened

Dr. Jane Orient: Our nation faces real threats that produce genuine body counts from violence and disease. We need an outbreak of common sense.

The Children, the Caravan, and Health

Dr. Jane Orient: Thousands of migrants are crammed together in Tijuana, many outdoors, and about a third of them are already sick.

What to Do About a Caravan of Rag-tag Migrants

Jane Orient: Is the aim of those advocating for the migrant caravan to help these people, or to destabilize the U.S. system of government and the rule of law?

Can Democrats Save Entitlements And Healthcare?

Dr Jane Orient: It is not possible to save entitlements or medical care if the economic and social fabric of the country is destroyed by identity politics, class warfare, mob rule, and the shredding of constitutional protections for life, liberty, and property.

What The Election Means To Your Medical Care

Dr. Jane Orient: Americans need to vote for freedom, competitive enterprises, and less not more government intrusion in their health care decisions.

The De-sciencing of American Medicine and What It Means to You

Dr. Jane Orient: The president of the entity that makes the MCAT, Darrell Kirch of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), intends to redefine what makes a good doctor.

Congress and the IRS Have Stranded Patients in SwampCare

Dr. Jane Orient: The Swamp in Washington, D.C., and its crony capitalist retainers do not want to lose their grip on the trillions of dollars that slosh through the “healthcare” sector—approaching one-fifth of the U.S. economy.

Why Do We Need a Right-to-Try Bill in America?

Dr. Jane Orient: Nowhere does the U.S. Constitution give the federal government the authority to regulate the practice of medicine. And it is a very good thing that federal intervention and standards didn’t begin in 1789.

Setting National Health Priorities: Trump and Climate Change

Dr. Jane Orient: President Trump’s initiatives on energy and climate challenge medical and public health authorities to prove their anti-carbon case.