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ATLAS Summit 2016 @ Freedom Fest: What About the Poor? How to Win the Healthcare Debate Without Selling Your Soul

Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas NV 3667 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Dr. Beth Haynes, BRI executive director delivered a talk at the 2016 ATLAS Summit @ Freedom Fest, What About the Poor? How to Win the Debate Without Selling Your Soul.

In order to engage those who are skeptical but potentially persuadable to free market ideas, we need to answer concerns about what happens to society's most disadvantaged in a powerful, truthful and compelling way. This is a major concern of young people, who frequently have a strong desire to help others, but who are typically economically ignorant and think with their hearts. In order to reach them we need to address their concerns without compromising on our fundamental principles. Come learn what tactics are working with students and are applicable to a much broader audience.

Day of Solidarity: Bringing awareness to the physician and medical student suicide epidemic

Imagine your excitement as a parent getting ready to attend your child's graduation from medical school. Instead, you attend his funeral--yet another medical student suicide victim.And statistics show no improvement even when a medical student becomes a doctor.

"Medical student and physician suicide is an epidemic. It is estimated that 400 doctors die by suicide in the United States each year. That's the equivalent of an entire medical school gone! The second leading cause of death among medical students is suicide--a well-known occupational hazard in medicine. Yet no medical organization is tracking these suicides. Why? And how can we solve a problem when it's hidden from us?"

Lacey Kohlmoos, an Online Organizing Strategist at Care2 Petitions and wife of a 4th year medical student, is championing National Day of Solidarity to Prevent Physician Suicide in Philadelphia on Saturday, August 20th to bring awareness to this dire situation.

The more awareness we raise, the more we can speak with one voice--a voice of solidarity--to find the root causes of physician and medical student suicide, and promote solutions to turn the tide.

Fulfilling a life's passion to care for others shouldn't mean personal suffering--or worse.

Free

AAPP ’16 Fall Summit on Private Medicine

Hyatt Regency Embarcadero San Francisco, CA, United States

Benjamin Rush Institute sent nine medical students to the American Academy of Private Physicians annual Direct Primary Care conference.

SPN 23rd Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI

Dr. Beth Haynes, BRI executive director, moderated a Docs 4 Patient Care panel on health policy in a breakout session. CON laws and other aspects of healthcare policy were discussed.

From the SPNAM.org official website: The SPN Annual Meeting started in 1993 in Traverse City, Michigan. A dozen people met in a room with the hope of building a robust network of state think tanks throughout the country. Today, the SPN Annual Meeting brings together over 900 people from around the country, including state and national leaders, influencers, and professionals.

We believe that being good enough is not enough to win in the rapidly evolving political environment. We can’t afford to be outgunned, outmanned and outspent. The future of the country depends on it.

That is why the State Policy Network has hosted the Annual Meeting for 23 years running.

This year, the Annual Meeting is returning to the state where it all started. Freedom fighters will gather in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with an intentional focus on developing the solutions and skills to advance freedom at both the state and national level. Through the lens of our 2015 theme – Experience Freedom – we will consider ways to sharpen our solutions and strategies and help our core audiences envision their need for freedom. We will inspire and challenge ourselves to give Americans opportunities to experience the benefits of freedom to their everyday lives.

The program focuses on building leaders, refining operations, cultivating excellent communication and outreach strategies, analyzing policy priorities and training top-notch fundraisers. The SPN Annual Meeting is also the only outlet where state and national leaders can chart collaborative strategies together. SPN purposefully creates an environment to facilitate connections and build coalitions.

2017 BRI Leadership Conference in Saint Louis, MO

Holiday Inn Express 4630 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO, United States

Doctors are called upon to treat the sickest of the sick, often in conditions that demand the most of the strongest human beings. Yet, even in America with some of the best medical conditions in the world, doctors are still called upon to serve, heal, and respond—over and over again—usually with no thought for their own well-being, endurance, or limitations.

Medical students are also found in similar situations: forced to the brink of their mental, emotional, and physical capacity, to study, learn and perform on cue . . . and they do this because they want to serve people.

So, how do we take care of our doctors and medical students? Based on the sheer number of healthcare professionals who drop out of school, out of their practices, or —worse yet, out of life itself through suicide—the answer is: not well at all.

At the Benjamin Rush Institute annual student leadership conference, we will present concrete, workable and proven ways to improve healthcare for all, and above all, heal our healers through the patient-doctor relationship.

Free

SLU: PANEL Discussion: Scope of Practice and the Future of Medicine

St. Louis University - Pitlyk Auditorium A Learning Resource Center, 3544 Hickory St, St. Louis, MO, United States

Can expanding the scope of practice for non-physicians increase access to high-quality primary care and help lower healthcare costs? Are Missouri’s new Assistant Physicians able to provide safe, high-quality care?

Free

Patients Rising University—CONFERENCE: Spotlight on Multiple Sclerosis

Mission Bay Conference Center William J. Rutter Center, 1675 Owens St #251, San Francisco, CA, United States

Patients Rising University Conference: Focus on Multiple Sclerosis at Mission Bay Conference Center.

Patients Rising University: Spotlight Multiple Sclerosis is a patient/consumer education event. We will bring together patients, advocates, medical experts and policy leaders to offer a comprehensive look at innovation, access and the health care reforms needed for patients living with multiple sclerosis.

American Association of Neurological Surgeons—CONFERENCE: Beth Haynes, MD: “Health policy education on US medical school campuses: inadequate and unbalanced”

Dr. Beth Haynes was one featured speakers at the AANS conference in Los Angeles. The Socioeconomic Section session of the AANS meeting had a variety of speakers. Dr. Jim Hinsdale gave a brief overview of recent US health policy initiatives and changes. Dr. Haynes spoke on the inadequate and imbalanced health policy instruction on US medical school campuses. A neurosurgeon from Bolivia presented on his very low cost neurosurgery procedures (craniotomy for less than $320). A variety of other speakers presented original research on patient satisfaction and tools for predicting surgical outcomes. The final speaker discussed the lack of women pursuing neurosurgical careers and the paucity of female neurosurgeons in academia and leadership positions.

2017 Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation (D4PCF) Certificate of Need (CON) Conference

The Heritage Foundation, Lehrman Auditorium 214 Massachusetts Avenue Northeast, Washington, DC, United States

The Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation has been leading the fight along with other free market organizations like BRI and The Heritage Foundation to bring attention to Certificate of Need […]