Free Market Medicine Association (FMMA)-Houston chapter meeting: Making Healthcare Transparent
FMMA-Houston chapter meeting to discuss direct primary care and other free market healthcare medical delivery systems and options.
FMMA-Houston chapter meeting to discuss direct primary care and other free market healthcare medical delivery systems and options.
Dr. Madrigal-Dersch will be speaking during TTUHSC SOM P3 week about her cash based practice and challenges of practicing medicine. All are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to ensure enough food for all.
Dr. Madrigal-Dersch has a private Med-Peds practice in Texas. She is also a BRI board member. Her story about how she designed her practice and life to support maximum patient care, personal satisfaction and joy is truly inspiring. We hope you'll join us.
Student scholarships are available for this event! See below. NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, WASHINGTON DC, DELAWARE, PHILLY or CONNECTICUT If you are in any of the above areas this Soho Forum debate […]
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 […]
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.