A conference to educate and inform physicians, future physicians and healthcare professionals about Direct Primary Care medical delivery options.
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.
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?
All are welcome to attend this presentation by two family practice doctors on Direct Primary Care, Drs. Marguerite Duane and Matt Haden.
Dr. Beth Haynes, BRI executive director will deliver a healthcare policy presentation at the California Federation of Republican Women | Mid-Peninsula at a luncheon on Wednesday, February 8th. Dr. Haynes will speak on the limitations and breakdowns with the Affordable Care Act, how it affecting doctors and medical students, and what some common sense solutions that can work right now.
All are welcome to join BRI-Marian for a screening of a Star Trek episode, focusing on healthcare policies. Afterward,Dr. Jason Eberl, Semler Endowed Professor of Medical Ethics at MUCOM will join us for a discussion about what we saw. Please RSVP to ensure enough food for all.
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.
Medical-Legal World
If you have not yet had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Jeffrey Segal speak, you are in for a real treat. Combining humorous anecdotes with 
real-world jurisprudence, Dr. Segal will give you lasting information about how to protect yourself and your practice as a future physician.
Sally Pipes on healthcare reform
All are welcome to attend a lecture on healthcare reform featuring Sally Pipes, President and CEO of Pacific Research Center, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979. Ms. Pipes is also Benjamin Rush Institute founder and Chair of the BRI Executive Board.
All are invited to the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Dublin campus for a debate hosted by the Benjamin Rush Institute's Dublin Chapter with nationally known experts in health care policy.
The debate will focus on this fundamental question:
Plan for America?
Sixty-five students enjoyed a lunch presentation by Wisconsin State Representative Dale Kooyenga (Dist. 14). Mr. Kooyenga lectured about how principles of federalism can help to solve problems with health care administration and coverage in America. He gave a very well structured overall plan for how he would go about replacing the ACA in the first half of the presentation, and the second half was reserved for question and answer.
Dr. Keith Smith, founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and pioneer in free market medical practice.
All are welcome to join Young Americans for Liberty and the UDel chapter of Benjamin Rush Institute for a Skype interview with Dr. Keith Smith, founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Dr. Smith will explain how his cash-based surgery practice operates.