Jane Orient, M.D.
Physicians for Informed Consent
Advisor
Dr. Jane Orient has served as the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989. She received her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona, and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Orient was on the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Medicine until 1981 and has since then been in solo practice in general internal medicine. She is the author of the second through fifth editions of Sapira’s Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis. The fifth and latest was published by Wolters Kluwer in 2018. She also authored Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Health Care, published by Crown.
Dr. Orient has appeared on some of the largest TV and Radio Networks in the country and her op-eds have been printed in hundreds of local and national newspapers, magazines, internet, followed on major blogs and covered in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.