Dr. Beth Haynes (r), BRI executive director
Dr. Beth Haynes, BRI executive director will giving a lecture to George Washington University students and faculty on health insurance.
What is health insurance?
What is not?
How is understanding distinctions in health insurance critical to controlling healthcare costs?
The Benjamin Rush Institute hosted a lunch talk for 42 students with Dr. Mark Niedfeldt. An alumnus and previous MCW faculty member, Dr. Niedfeldt now owns a solo direct medical care (often called Direct Primary Care) clinic which offers patients unprecedented access to the physician and a higher level of personal attention. We heard him speak about his practice and how he offers high quality doctor-patient relationships in a cost-effective way.
The BRI chapter will also be talking about DPC and concierge medicine. The student from our school who went to the FMMA Conference will report about what he learned at the amazing opportunity.
Thanks to wonderful modern technology, Dr. Josh Umbehr from AtlasMD—with two Kansas locations—will join us via Skype for a lecture and Q&A on Direct Primary Care (DPC) and concierge medicine.
Jordan Halevy, MS1 and BRI-Sackler chapter Founder and President will deliver an overview of the history of healthcare in the US, from the founding of the AMA and mutual societies all the way up to the ACA and beyond. The presentation will highlight the numerous government interventions into the healthcare market and how those distortions still affect us to this day.
All are invited to attend a lecture by Robert Nelson, MD, cofounder and spokesman for the Free Market Medical Association-Georgia Chapter. Dr. Nelson is also a DPC physician in the Atlanta area. Lunch will be provided.
This lunchtime presentation is part of a study being conducted by Will Craghead on DPC's ability to influence medical students to enter the primary care specialty.Will Craghead is a PA student and BRI chapter member.
All are invited to attend a papers presentation by two BRI student leaders. Please RSVP within 48 hours to ensure enough food for all. Our presenters are Temiloluwa Apantaku and 'Laolu Oyewo. The first paper is an Introduction to the National Health Policy and the second topic is on monitoring and evaluating this policy. POST-EVENT SUMMARY: Student […]
All are invited to attend this lunch lecture on healthcare policy with Mr. John Torinus. Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP.
John Torinus, author of The Grassroots Health Care Revolution and former CEO of of Serigraph, believes that the only way to improve health care and lower health costs are at the local level. In this talk, he will address how companies need to return to private health care and the effect that it will have on health care quality and cost.
Students at George Washington University watch Code Black.
Faith Mission operates the only kitchens in Franklin County able to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner every day of the year. We serve more than 600 meals a day (over 220,000 meals per year). The Faith Mission Community Kitchen serves our shelter residents as well as individuals from the community who need a meal, welcoming everyone, and placing no barriers between a person in need and available food.
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.
Please join the Benjamin Rush Institute-UDelaware chapter and Young Americans for Liberty for this panel discussion of Direct Primary Care. Three DPC doctors who operate in Delaware will be coming to the University of Delaware to describe how their practices work and to answer questions from the audience.
Dr. Harold Chevlen, MD, a 95-year old retired physician who practiced independent family medicine for 50 years in Youngstown, Ohio, will be discussing the changes that occurred throughout his career. In particular he'll describe how things most medical students take for granted, such as antibiotics revolutionized his practice of medicine. He will also talk about the joys of family medicine.