My introduction to the practice of medicine began prior to medical school. Dr.’s Don Garrett and Richard Allgood, both thoracic surgeons, allowed me to spend enough time with them to absorb countless lessons, many of which remain with me to this day. While...
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with medical student members of the Benjamin Rush Society at the Medical College of Wisconsin. During the question and answer session at the end, I marveled at the questions these young people asked. Their questions indicated...
Murray Rothbard, as Lew Rockwell relates in his latest book, “Fascism vs. Capitalism,” maintained a healthy respect for the obvious and unapologetic corruption in the boxing world. After all, in the boxing world, no one masquerades as a standardbearer of...
Here is a link to an article in The New Yorker magazine that mentions us in a favorable light. I’m not sure what this means, but am hoping that the tide is beginning to turn and that many who have traditionally been apologists for the state’s presence in...
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to...
As I have written previously, the most serious threat to the medical price transparency initiative is an endorsement by the government. Here it is. Mandating transparent pricing in health care will simply provide the legislator the opportunity to sell exemptions to...
Here is a post about us from John Cochrane, aka, The Grumpy Economist. Be sure to read the comments. Here is Professor Cochrane’s WSJ oped which came out today. GKS
"How does your model work for the poor?" "How does your free market deliver care to them?" "What about the poor?" These questions are some of the most frequent ones I encounter, invariably asked in an attempt to cast some aspersion on the idea that health care and a...
Here is a link to my interview with Next News Network’s Gary Franchi. I thought he did a great job as an interviewer and thought some of you would enjoy hearing it. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
Here is a link to Lew Rockwell’s most recent podcast interview with Medibid’s founder, Ralph Weber. Lew and Ralph are both kind enough to mention me during their talk. G. Keith Smith, M.D.
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.