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Viewpoint: Honesty in Healthcare Part 4: Who Is Doing What, and What Are Their Qualifications?

Patients and customers deserve full honesty and clarity.

Viewpoint: Disintermediation – A Cure For The Doctor-Patient Relationship

"There are several models that have successfully eliminated the intermediaries in healthcare and restored the doctor-patient relationship."

By Jack Brown

Viewpoint: Honesty in Healthcare Part 3: The Need For Skepticism, Dissenting Opinions And Uncensored Conversations

"Think about what it would mean if a physician could lose his or her license due to a private discussion with a patient in an exam room for sharing a true and honest medical opinion."

By Kathleen M. Brown, MD

Viewpoint: Honesty in Healthcare Part 2: The Need for Courage

"This is when another virtue of courage is needed, and it starts with self-honesty in recognizing when we are part of dishonesty because of employment, business interests and law."

By Kathleen M. Brown, MD

Viewpoint: The Losses to Physician Medicare Reimbursement in 2022/23 are Mind-boggling. Update to “When Will Enough Be Enough.”

"Inflation acts like a hidden tax which erodes the buying power of people’s income and savings and eats away at the ability to achieve long-term financial goals."

By Jack Brown

Viewpoint: Honesty In Healthcare – A Little Bit Can Go A Long Way

"A foundation of trust is necessary for the best practice of medicine."

By Kathleen M. Brown, MD

Viewpoint: Addressing Montana’s Healthcare Shortage Should Begin With Occupational Licensing

Montana’s unprecedented shortage of healthcare workers requires a paradigm shift in occupational licensing regulations.

By Jack Brown

Viewpoint: Should You Really Have To Get Government Permission To Work?

"Unnecessary or overbroad restrictions erect significant barriers and impose costs that harm American workers, employers, consumers, and our economy as a whole, with no measurable benefits to consumers or society."

By Jack Brown

Viewpoint: Business As Usual For Health System After Passage Of The No Surprises Act

"This is still business as usual for our broken healthcare system: overpriced, overcomplicated and impossible to navigate."

By Kathleen M. Brown, MD

Viewpoint: Blockchain Technology Can Bring Trust, Speed and Efficiency to Medical Licensing and Credentialing

"Even though blockchain technology was initially designed for the financial cryptocurrency market, it is potentially an excellent vehicle for storing and accessing licensing and credentialing documents."

By Jack Brown

Viewpoint: Why should a doctor licensed to practice in California be unable to do so in Montana?

"While the European Union allows free movement of healthcare workers across its 27 member countries, the United States does not allow this movement across state borders."

By Jack Brown

Viewpoint: How to Get More Physicians Practicing in Montana

"It is possible to remove the licensing barriers preventing more physicians from practicing in Montana while maintaining high quality health care."

By Kathleen M. Brown, MD

Viewpoint: When Will Enough be Enough? Why Physicians are Quitting Medicare

"Physicians find themselves faced with an increasingly bureaucratic regulatory nightmare, forcing them to choose between providing good medical care or playing the 'Medicare game' to survive."

By Jack Brown

Viewpoint: What About the Poor?

"Lowering costs and improving quality is actually now happening without mandates and laws, and in spite of bureaucratic obstacles."

By Kathleen M. Brown, MD