The Medical Community Speaks Out

Beth Haynes, MD, BRI’s medical director, drills into what constitutes a right, and is claiming that healthcare is a right really in accordance with our Constitutional principles?

Twila Brase, RN co-founded the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, an organization designed to empower average citizen patients to advocate for their own health freedom.

The Way Out of Obamacare

Sally Pipes, founder of Pacific Research Institute and BRI, examines the realities of government medicine and recommends ways to end it before it becomes entrenched in the US.

While a Physician Assistant student, Will Craghead researched students’ attitudes towards Direct Primary Care. In spite of institutional obstacles, he was able to gather some eye-opening information.

Jason Fodeman, MD, MBA Assistant Professor of medicine, Internal Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine.

Dr. Fodeman uses both his MD and MBA degrees to expand understanding all facets of healthcare. Being able to analyze healthcare in an informed manner from many angles is critical to holding effective healthcare conversations. He has held several fellowships and is a prolific writer and advocate for doctoral freedom in medicine. One of his main concerns is how doctors have for the most part been side-stepped in the entire healthcare policy conversation, and he is pleased to be seeing more young doctors, medical students, and season physicians beginning to take more of an active role.

Philip Eskew, MD, JD, MBA VP & General Counsel at Proactive MD, Site Medical Director at Corizon Health, CEO at DPC Frontier.

Lawyer-MD uses both disciplines to further healthcare freedom.

Dr. Phil Eskew obtained his JD degree by design prior to pursuing an MD. Now he uses knowledge from both domains for the purposes of furthering healthcare freedom, specifically in the area of direct primary care (DPC). Dr. Eskew exposes the fundamental flaws behind much of healthcare policy reasoning today, which are often economics based.

A Socratic Challenge to the Theory & Practice of Population Medicine.

Physician and author Dr. Michel Accad reflects on his journey through system-based medicine and how his skepticism of population medicine led him to establish his own private practice. Dr. Accad was a featured speaker at the 2017 BRI leadership conference in St. Louis. He regularly publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals on philosophical aspects of healthcare and medicine, and has lectured nationally and internationally. His perspective is frequently solicited in media interviews and podcasts, and his commentaries on medical science, medical ethics and healthcare economics also appear on his blog: AlertAndriented.com.

Nigeria: Medical school process, challenges and opportunities

Aishat Olanlege, MD, was BRI’s first international medical student leader. She established the Ibadan BRI chapter and was one of BRI’s most prolific leaders. She combined her thirst for knowledge with a desire to improve the quality of life in her community through entrepreneurial efforts. Dr. Olanlege continues to work on healthcare policy and improving community health in her area.

Dr. Olanlege has recently secured her internship, an obligatory requirement for a permanent medical license in Nigeria, at the Lagos State Health Service Commission.

The Association of Independent Doctors gives physicians in private medical practices a voice in the face of encroaching government regulation and medical consolidation. As hospitals become increasingly monopolistic and enticing to new doctors entering the field, studies show without fail that such consolidation reduces transparency, quality of care and the direct time a patient spends with a doctor, while increasing costs and inefficiencies.