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FMMA Conference recap by John Flo

  Ten Benjamin Rush Institute Student Leaders attended the 2015 Free Market Medical Association’s (FMMA) Conference in August. Several wrote posts highlighting a specific speaker or message from the Conference. We hope you enjoy Mr. John Flo’s enthusiastic report...

Why you shouldn’t trust a broker

Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this video blog series. I have an employee here at the Surgery Center who used to work at an insurance brokerage and she told me the following story: A man came in and expressed...

Big hospitals’ response to our online pricing

Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. I’d like to talk a little bit today about what the response has been of big corporate healthcare to our having posting prices online. I mentioned before...

Giving Back To The Community

Giving back to the community is a phrase you hear and read often. I always get a chuckle when I hear that some so-called not-for-profit hospital claims to give back to the community in various ways.

“Rural hospitals in critical condition”

I’ve said many times that I look forward to a political candidate whose platform consists of a single pledge – a pledge to vote against every single law that is proposed.

If You’re On Medicare, You Should Be Angry

Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. Would you be angry if you discovered that your entire working life, you had sent money to someone every 2 weeks – money that was supposed to be put back...

What is the FMMA?

In my most recent video blog for the Free Market Medical Association, I describe what the organization is... and what it is not. Read the transcript here: ---------- Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association. Thank you for...

30 medical students need our help

The following is the transcript from a video I posted from the Free Market Medical Association. Learn more about the Free Market Medical Association annual conference, and the Benjamin Rush Institute online. --------- TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you on...

Two of Corporate Medicine’s Gangsters

This is a blog I posted about a year ago, but it's worth a re-read. Enjoy! ----------- We operated on a patient recently from Pennsylvania who had first gone to see an orthopedic surgeon in his hometown who was a hospital employee. The patient said that the surgeon...

Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons and Anesthesiologists | Surgery Center of Oklahoma

Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons & Anesthesiologists

Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.

  • Anesthesiology
  • Ear, Nose and Throat (Otolaryngology)
  • Foot and Ankle
  • General Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Gynecology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery
  • Orthopedics
  • Reconstructive Plastics
  • Urology