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Why did you decide to become a doctor?
Do you say that you want to help people in a meaningful way that also is personally challenging? We think that's a great description of what it means to practice medicine. What can be better than the excitement of really cool applied science, the challenge of life-long professional growth (there's always something new to learn), and—most importantly, the privilege of caring for people through some of the most joyous and tragic events of their lives?
As doctors, we are privy to life's most powerful and intimate moments . . . watching a child be born . . . holding the hand of a dying patient . . . listening to the struggles of living with a chronic disease . . . the look of relief and gratitude after a successful surgery.
And let's not forget the incredible experience of working as part of dedicated team — in our offices, hospitals, charity clinics, and medical missions.
Yes, being a doctor in America is a great vocation.
Yet, American medicine is at a crossroads. Concern over access, quality, and affordability have many turning to government to supply solutions — at the risk of impeding innovation, burying physicians in burdensome regulations, ratcheting back pay, interjecting bureaucratic mandates that get between doctors and their patients, and reducing a doctor's ability to practice medicine according to his or her own experience, judgement and skills.
At BRI, we declare that there exists a need to reinvent physician leadership in an age of teamwork. There is an urgency for doctors to be stronger, more vocal leaders, not only among medical colleagues, but in the wider community. There's a very real need for a new kind of doctor, as a leader and advocate for those who have been priced out of affordable medical care. That means physicians need to understand economics to be able to advocate effectively for policies that produce lasting improvements for everyone, not ones that simply make us "feel good."
This will require a new kind of doctor—one who not only practices medical excellence, but who also adds a voice of leadership so desperately needed in today's healthcare climate.
That's what this year's conference is all about: Earned leadership, with non-paternalistic, informed compassion and effective advocacy.
Beth Haynes, MD, Executive Director of the Benjamin Rush Institute, joins Dr. Michael Koriwchak in the Doctor's Lounge to respond to some of the problems identified and critique the solutions.
Welcome to Medical College of Wisconsin! You made it! BRI-MCW is an active chapter of involved medical students who meet monthly for our "Journal Club," where students present papers and other items of interest to the medical community. BRI-MCW also sponsors lectures, debates and other activities to promote healthcare freedom and preserve the doctor-patient relationship.
Come on out to Second Look Day and stop at our table! We look forward to meeting you!
Peter Viccellio, MD, Clinical Director of the Emergency Department at Stony Brook, will be debating Francis S. Stellaccio, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, on the proper role of government in health care and on the effects of the ACA.
Francis S. Stellaccio, MD
Join us for free refreshments and a screening of the obesity documentary "Fed Up." Filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig and journalist Katie Couric examine America's obesity epidemic and question the role of both the industry and government regulators in contributing to sickness. This BRI event is part of Dartmouth's Public Health week celebration.
Dr. Timothy Law will be talking about his practice as a rural medical practitioner. He will be discussing his work with the Amish community and how he has formed a very successful rural practice built on a medical fee for service model. Dr. Law is a Assistant Professor and Medical Director for CTRU, & SHAPe as well as a Associate Director of Rural and Urban Scholars Pathway.
04/07/16 Guest Dr. Richard Armstrong, M.D.
Dr. Richard Armstrong steps into the Doctor's Lounge to explain the value of our partnerships and the strategy for health care that is shaping up.
The Marian University School of Medicine's BRI chapter is proud to screen Poverty, Inc. to students and faculty. It is a bold look at “the business of doing good.” Please join us for refreshments and lively discussion following the film.
From the film's website:
"The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry — the business of doing good has never been better. Yet the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders in the developing world are growing increasingly vocal in calling for change. Drawing from over 200 interviews filmed in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc. unearths an uncomfortable side of charity we can no longer ignore."