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BRI unites medical students, students in affiliated healthcare specialties, faculty, doctors, healthcare professionals, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices.

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BRI students enjoy scholarship opportunities to attend educational conferences and network with free enterprise healthcare advocates.

Media

From Direct Primary Care to healthcare economics and more, read the latest from BRI medical students, students in affiliated healthcare specialties, practicing physicians, healthcare professionals, and other experts. More media, podcasts, and materials available.

Events

BRI chapters host lively lectures, educational debates, discussion panels, movie screenings, and much more. Want to host or attend an event?

Connect With Leaders And Innovators

Through leadership conferences, chapter events, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of medical students.

Pathways2Practice

A platform for medical students, residents, nursing and pre-med students, practicing physicians, and other healthcare professionals to share and publish articles, op-eds, and research that is relevant to the patient-doctor relationship.

Sally Pipes & Wayne Winegarden: “Arizona Republicans Should Stop Trying to Ban mRNA Vaccines”

Those who are fighting to stop patient access to mRNA technology are killing one of our best shots at a cure for cancer, along with many other life-saving therapies. Here's why AZ Republicans should reconsider.

Sally Pipes: “Proposed Patent Tax Threatens the Research That Powers Growth”

Taxing university licensing revenue as suggested by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, wouldn’t reward taxpayers. It would instead punish them—and potentially prevent the next Google from being invented.

Sally Pipes: “Facing Medicaid Fraud Allegations, California Changes The Subject”

Medicaid fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. And, despite Gov. Newsom's attempts to take the conversation elsewhere, California is at the center of that impropriety.

Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of five physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence.

“Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.”

– Benjamin Rush, MD