This is a big reach-out to Jimmie Martin. His response to my lowering prices was, “Nice try. Now go get in your Jag and head to the country club.” I’m obviously not in my Jaguar – this actually is my van – and I’m not headed to the country club. Actually I’m still at...
Hello Dr. Keith Smith with you - Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. I’m very excited to announce that this past week I posted prices for knee replacements on our website. Facilities all over the United States are beginning to perform...
Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you on behalf of the Free Market Medical Association. Increasingly, the Free Market Medical Association, its seal of approval, its brand and its stamp are being sought out by the real players in the free market movement, as distinguished...
At the bottom of the transcript of this blog, you will see a link that shows the board of directors for the Center for Advancing Health and also to the article written for them by a journalist – Trudy Lieberman – about our facility, referring to us as a ‘cut-rate...
Looking at our website once again, familiar to all of you and all of those big hospital systems in the United States that have completely copied, if not plagiarized this site. Here is my price for the wrist and hand section: Trigger Finger. It’s $2,750. [Pans to...
Dr. Keith Smith with, Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. No, you’re not looking at me; you’re looking at our website. I want to talk to you a little bit about the spiraling cost of healthcare and show you what we think of that myth at...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. “Cancel your vacation. I’m sick!” That’s what somebody really means when they say they have a right to healthcare, isn’t it? People don’t really mean that they have...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. I wrote an op-ed piece recently for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons called “Repeal and Replace? No thanks!” This was confusing to some people;...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. My friend, Jim Epstein, of Reason Magazine, told me when he was here doing his mini-documentary on our facility, that one of the characteristics he looked for in...
Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining me in this series. I’d like to talk a little bit about what single-payer healthcare would look like in the United States. Some of the most vicious comments I’ve ever received from this...
Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.