The BRI Blog

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Psychologist and Resident Scholar, Sally Satel, MD, and Kevin Corinth, Research Fellow in Economic Policy Studies, both at AEI, address the psychological and logistical issues of the chronically homeless, and what policies and institutions can best help them.

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Meg Edison, pediatrician, tells her story of how she became involved in local politics leading to more active engagement on a state level to help preserve the doctor-patient relationship and reduce stifling government regulation.

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Author and Ayn Rand Institute Fellow, Don Watkins speaks to a group of BRI medical students, guests, and physicians about the unintended consequences and ill effects of misguided government policy in “helping the poor.” As always, more freedom and choice is the answer; government intervention and regulation is the problem.

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When the doctor slated to debate the free market side of government’s role in healthcare, BRI chapter president, Daniel Milyavsky stepped in to take his place. It is more important than ever that future doctors are educated about the merits of free enterprise in healthcare, and what options it provides to caring adequately for the poor.

You may not have known that the Benjamin Rush Society was founded along the lines of The Federalist Society, a national society of law students.

Thirty years ago, enterprising laws students founded a society to counter “campus orthodoxies” about the role of government.  The success of The Federalist Society inspired similar efforts amongst students of foreign affairs, business, and – of course – medicine!  Students of all these professions, who were concerned about inappropriate government growth, have formed societies to develop ideas, energy, and fellowship.

In the November 2011 issue of Philanthropy Magazine carries an exellent feature article, describing the founding of The Benjamin Rush Society and its sister (and mother) organizations.  Read the online version here.

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The Arthur N. Rupe Debate Series

November 28, 2012

George Washington University School of Medicine

Be it resolved that:

The requirements of social justice are in conflict with the requiements of an ethical doctor-patient relationship

In favor:

• Dr. Richard Fogoros, MD, Pittsburgh, PA, Cardiologist, Author of The Covert Rationing Blog
• Dr. Lee Hieb, MD, Logan, IA, Orthopedic Surgeon, Past President, American Association of Physicians and Surgeons

Opposed:

• Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman, MD, Baltimore, MD, Internal Medicine, Chief Medical Officer, Health Care for the Homeless
• Dr. Chris Lillis, MD, Fredericksburg, VA, Internal Medicine Board of Directors, Doctors for America

Moderator

• Mark Tapscott, Executive Editor, Washington Examiner