Knowledge Center

For recent medical community news and insights, engage with our recent posts below.

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BRI In Action

Check out clips from BRI conferences and keynotes below.

The Physician’s Fiduciary Responsibility to the Patient — Rafael Fonseca, MD

Medicaid: Challenges and Solutions — Katherine Restrepo

Breaking Down Barriers in Healthcare in Nigeria — Aishat Olanlege, MD

SeeThru Healthcare: Blockchain | Healthcare | Transparency — Adi Segal

PANEL: Social Justice and the Patient–Doctor Relationship

The Sanctity of the Patient-Doctor Relationship—Jules Madrigal, MD

Privacy in the Era of EHRs—Twila Brase RN, PHN

Single-Payer Healthcare: Hopes, Dreams, Realities—Sameer Lakha, MD

Falcon Heavy Health Care: What can we learn from Elon Musk and apply to healthcare?—Robert Graboyes, PhD

Renewed Trust: From Distributive Justice to Do No Harm in Medical Ethics—Robert S. Emmons, MD

Direct Primary Care: Ethics of the Patient-Doctor Relationship—Heather Bartlett, MD

Medical Ethics and the Holocaust: Lessons From the Past—Raul Artal, MD

Effective Communication Strategies—Merlin Huff, MFA

The Medical Community Speaks Out

BRI is a proud supporter of the NEXGENMED Podcast, where current medical students and professionals discuss free market healthcare.

Check out recent episodes:

Episode #57:
G. Keith Smith, cofounder of the Oklahoma Surgery Center.

BRI student host, Rufus Sweeney, and Dr. G. Keith Smith, cofounder of the Oklahoma Surgery Center, discuss the benefits of free enterprise in the practice of medicine and how practice models such as Direct Primary and Direct Speciality Care are the answer to reforming our broken healthcare system.

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Episode #56:
Dr. Gilbert Berdine, Associate Professor of Internal & Pulmonary Medicine at Texas Tech Health Science Center and Faculty Affiliate with the Free Market Institute.

Dr. Gilbert Berdine traces his interesting and informative journey from studying engineering at MIT to practicing pulmonology and Austrian economics at Texas Tech.

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Episode #55:
Dr. Christy Ford Chapin, Associate Professor, (Ph.D. University of Virginia)

Dr. Christy Ford Chapin and podcast host, Rufus Sweeney, discuss, "How Did Our Healthcare System Become Such a Mess?" the journey in depth.

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Educational Materials

For more information regarding free market healthcare authored by leading social scientists and physicians, check out the references below.

Healthcare Reform Pamphlets & White Papers

Daniel Milyavsky, Saving the Patient-Doctor Relationship — a look EHRs
Sivakumar, Haran, How Will Repealing the Individual Mandate Affect Americans’ Healthcare Coverage?
Danny McCorry, BRI Leader Emeritus, Georgetown University: "Direct Primary Care: An Unconventional Alternative to Conventional Health Insurance"
Joshua B. Trent — Committee on Energy and Commerce, US House of Representatives: Strengthening Medicaid to Protect the Most Vulnerable

Medical Economics

Information presenting many sides of the economic view of healthcare.

Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Bartlett, MD, Heather, A Look at the Ethics of the Patient-Doctor Relationship Through the Eyes of a Direct Primary Care Physician
Beck, Melinda, With Direct Primary Care, It’s Just Doctor and Patient
Restrepo, Katherine, Direct Primary Care: A Simple Health Care Model Designed to Help Patients With Chronic Disease and Disabilities, John Locke Foundation

The Nature of Insurance

Basu, Rituparna, "The Broken State of American Health Insurance Prior to the ACA: A Market Rife with Government Distortion"

Economics

Bastiat, Frederic, The Law, 1789 - Online PDF
Hazlitt, Henry, Economics in One Lesson, 1946 - Online PDF
The Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP), by The Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Medical Ethics

Fonseca, MD, Rafael, The Physician Patient Relationship From the Trenches
Emmons, MD, Robert, False Promise: From Do No Harm to Distributive Justice in Medical Ethics and Why We Are All Sicker
Brase, Twila, RN, PHN, Privacy in the Era of EHRs

Medicare and Medicaid Reform

Cannon, Michael & Tanner, Michael, Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, Cato, 2007
Goldhill, David, Catastrophic Care
Goodman, John, et al, Lives at Risk: Single Payer National Health Insurance Around the World, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
Kling, Arnold, Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care. Cato, 2006
Lakha, MD, Sameer, Single Payer Healthcare: hopes, dreams, realities
Sivakumar, Haran, The ABC’s of Medicare
McDonough, John, Inside National Health Reform, Milbank Books, 2012
Pipes, Sally, The Pipes Plan, Regnery Pub. Inc., Washington Dc, 2012
Pipes, Sally, The Truth About Obamacare, Regnery Pub. Inc., Washington, DC, 2010
Medicare Information Sources
Restrepo, Katherine P, Medicaid: Challenges and Solutions

Malpractice

Sage, Wm. & Kersh, R., Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System, Cambridge U. Press, NY, 2006

Knowledge Center

[Blog Posts Here]

BRI In Action

The Physician’s Fiduciary Responsibility to the Patient — Rafael Fonseca, MD

Medicaid: Challenges and Solutions — Katherine Restrepo

Breaking Down Barriers in Healthcare in Nigeria — Aishat Olanlege, MD

SeeThru Healthcare: Blockchain | Healthcare | Transparency — Adi Segal

PANEL: Social Justice and the Patient–Doctor Relationship

The Sanctity of the Patient-Doctor Relationship—Jules Madrigal, MD

Privacy in the Era of EHRs—Twila Brase RN, PHN

Single-Payer Healthcare: Hopes, Dreams, Realities—Sameer Lakha, MD

Falcon Heavy Health Care: What can we learn from Elon Musk and apply to healthcare?—Robert Graboyes, PhD

Renewed Trust: From Distributive Justice to Do No Harm in Medical Ethics—Robert S. Emmons, MD

Direct Primary Care: Ethics of the Patient-Doctor Relationship—Heather Bartlett, MD

Medical Ethics and the Holocaust: Lessons From the Past—Raul Artal, MD

Effective Communication Strategies—Merlin Huff, MFA

The Medical Community Speaks Out

Episode #57: G. Keith Smith, cofounder of the Oklahoma Surgery Center.

Episode #56:Dr. Gilbert Berdine, Associate Professor of Internal & Pulmonary Medicine at Texas Tech Health Science Center and Faculty Affiliate with the Free Market Institute.

Episode #55:Dr. Christy Ford Chapin, Associate Professor, (Ph.D. University of Virginia)

Newsletter Archives

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

Educational Materials

Healthcare Reform Pamphlets & White Papers

Medical Economics

Direct Primary Care (DPC)

The Nature of Insurance

Economics

Medical Ethics

Medicare and Medicaid Reform

Malpractice

Episode #57:
G. Keith Smith, cofounder of the Oklahoma Surgery Center.

Episode #56:
Dr. Gilbert Berdine, Associate Professor of Internal & Pulmonary Medicine at Texas Tech Health Science Center and Faculty Affiliate with the Free Market Institute.

Episode #55:
Dr. Christy Ford Chapin, Associate Professor, (Ph.D. University of Virginia)