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SUMMARY:Brownstone Pittsboro\, NC Supper Club\, May 19: Dianna Lightfoot
DESCRIPTION:Brownstone Institute Supper Club\, Pittsboro\, NC \nForest Hall at Chatham Mills \nTuesday\, May 19\, 2026 @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM \n$55 includes dinner\, beer and wine. \nDianna Lightfoot\, Policy Director\, North Carolina Physicians for Freedom \nAbout the Talk: \nUnderserving the Underserved: The New Guinea Pigs \nHB67: The Healthcare Workforce Reform Bill: Interstate Licensing Compact\, Foreign Physician Licensing (2025). \nHB67 passed quietly and without major opposition in the state legislature in late 2025. Why? Because almost no one knew about it.  After serving as the go-to group for many legislators and policy leaders for more than four years\, North Carolina Physicians for Freedom (NCPFF)\, North Carolina’s only all-medical-professional 501(c)3 organization\, was not asked to review or comment on HB67. \nNC was only the second state in the nation to approve this law\, Tennessee was the first (and is now working to amend the law).  But now\, the cookie-cutter language of this Bill has swept the nation\, passing or currently being considered in more than 20 states. \nIn part\, HB67 allows foreign physicians to practice in rural areas\, ostensibly compensating for the lack of medical care in rural NC. But HB67 is inherently flawed. NCPFF’s network believes it sets a dangerous precedent for rural health with key concerns being patient safety\, inconsistent standards and unclear supervision.   This topic hits close to home as Chatham and surrounding counties have many rural areas.  Come join the discussion!   \nAbout the Speaker: \nDianna Lightfoot is a health care policy advisor and networking expert with national and international experience. In 2017 she was appointed by the Trump White House to Senior Policy Advisor for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Global Health. In this capacity\, Ms. Lightfoot’s responsibilities included interacting with the Department of Education\, Health and Human Services and the State Department\, coordinating on health-related issues as well as global security\, education reform\, migration\, the environment\, and human trafficking. \nIn 2021\, Dianna co-founded North Carolina Physicians for Freedom (NCPFF)\, where she serves as its current director. NCPFF is a 501 (c) 3 advisory network of physicians and other medical practitioners who seek to support medical freedom\, patient choice\, patient rights\, and medical privacy. \nDianna also advises multiple physician-led policy groups and organizations nationwide. They include U.S. Health and Human Services officials and Frontliners\, a national network of state-based professionals who share mutually beneficial research and information on issues related to healthcare\, education\, child welfare and voter integrity\, among others. \nMs. Lightfoot was Dr. Ben Carson’s National Medical Coalitions Director during his presidential campaign\, and an advisor to the White House Domestic Policy Advisor in the George W. Bush Administration. \nVenue & Details \nForest Hall at Chatham Mills\, 480 Hillsboro Street\, Suite 530\, Pittsboro\, NC \nForest Hall is located in a historic label mill built in the early 1900s\, the venue has wooden floors\, exposed brick walls and large windows. The 3500 square foot hall is located on 32 acres of woods and meadows in historic downtown Pittsboro\, NC- just 20 minutes away from Chapel Hill and 40 minutes from Raleigh or Durham.  Catering is provided by 39 West Catering.  \nTicket Information  \n$55 per person includes a lovely buffet style dinner\, beer\, and wine.  Secure your spot now! 
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SUMMARY:Brownstone Pittsboro\, NC Supper Club\, April 21: Drs. Patricia Robitaille and Coleen Rickabaugh
DESCRIPTION:Brownstone Institute Supper Club\, Pittsboro\, NC \nForest Hall at Chatham Mills \nTuesday\, April 21\, 2026 @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM \nDr. Patricia Robitaille and Dr. Coleen Rickabaugh \nAbout the talk \nJoin us as we build our community around lively and in-depth discussions about topics that matter to all of us!  Dr. Patricia Robitaille and Dr. Coleen Rickabaugh\, from Ohio and the DC area respectively\, are travelling the country to discuss the critical reforms needed to the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) of 1986\, a federal law originally intended to address medical malpractice and improve patient care. However\, HCQIA is now often weaponized through sham peer reviews which silence ethical physicians who challenge profit-driven practices or administrative overreach. The doctors have recently appeared on podcasts\, including DemystifySci and a Substack interview by Jefferey Jaxen\, and are scheduled for the March Chicago Brownstone Institute Supper Club. They will outline the original intent of HCQIA\, how the misapplication of this federal law controls physicians and negatively affects patient care\, in addition to proposed legislative amendments aimed at removing hospital immunity\, restoring due process\, protecting whistleblowers\, and prioritizing patient safety over institutional control. Their insights\, formed by decades of frontline experience in emergency medicine\, emphasize the urgent need to rewrite this flawed legislation and to rebuild trust and integrity in the medical system. \nAbout the Speakers \nDr. Patricia Robitaille is an emergency physician with 35 years of experience in emergency medicine and 20 years of involvement in physician peer review and credentialing. As chairman\, she unified three credentialing committees from four hospitals\, to form a centralized\, system wide Medical Staff Credentialing Committee which was responsible for the evaluation of thousands of physicians. She has extensive experience as an emergency department chairman and head of human resources for her practice group. She has dedicated her clinical career to putting patients first. Having personally witnessed ethically concerning issues in healthcare arising from the corporatization of medicine\, particularly the misapplication of the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986\, she is dedicated to reforming this law. She has sought to educate the public and healthcare professionals about these issues through her Substack and is collaborating on legislative efforts to reform HCQIA. \n  \nDr. Coleen Rickabaugh has 30 years of experience practicing emergency medicine. She served as the recruiter for their department and has been the volunteer medical director for emergency medical services\, directing pre-hospital care in Spotsylvania County Virginia. While her allopathic training had prepared her to treat true emergencies\, she quickly realized that many patients who presented to the emergency department were in desperate need of primary care. Having a holistic slant and a “whole person” philosophy of medicine\, she incorporated that into her practice model\, frequently educating patients about the dangers of over-reliance on pharmaceutical agents and coaching them on issues of immune health\, food as medicine\, and the importance of physical activity. She became increasingly disillusioned by the administrative usurpation of medicine\, the abandonment of ethics\, the substitution of protocol medicine for critical thinking\, and the lack of accessibility to proper care for many patients. These concerns peaked during the Covid pandemic. She became a Covid dissident and formed an underground alliance with one like-minded family practitioner in the community to treat patients early with immune support and assist them in navigating inpatient care with medical autonomy and informed consent. Having experienced moral injury\, she left clinical medicine to embark on healthcare advocacy issues\, partnering with Dr. Patricia Robitaille on a mission to reform the Health Care Quality Improvement Act that is failing as a patient safety mechanism and eroding the physician-patient relationship which is so vital for the optimization of patient health. \nVenue & Details \nForest Hall at Chatham Mills\, 480 Hillsboro Street\, Suite 530\, Pittsboro\, NC \nForest Hall is located in a historic label mill built in the early 1900s\, the venue has wooden floors\, exposed brick walls and large windows. The 3500 square foot hall is located on 32 acres of woods and meadows in historic downtown Pittsboro\, NC- just 20 minutes away from Chapel Hill and 40 minutes from Raleigh or Durham.  Catering is provided by 39 West Catering.  \nTicket Information  \n$55 per person includes a lovely buffet style dinner\, beer\, and wine.  Secure your spot now!
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SUMMARY:Brownstone Pittsboro\, NC Supper Club\, March 18: Dr. Sheila Furey
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to be hosting the inaugural Pittsboro\, NC\, Supper Club featuring Dr. Sheila Furey! \nDr. Furey will offer timely insights into medical freedom and the Constitution\, reflect on the medical/pharmaceutical history of the gender dysphoria phenomenon and share her experiences from the past 5 years of the medical establishment betraying the Hippocratic Oath. \nAbout Dr. Sheila Furey \nSheila Furey\, MD is an adult\, child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice in Richmond\, Virginia. In almost 30 years of practice\, she has worked in outpatient and inpatient settings\, residential treatment centers for children and the juvenile justice system. Dr. Furey has also completed forensic evaluations and testified as an expert witness. In 2020\, in the midst of Covid\, she began to question the “science” and watched in real time as physician communication platforms were shut down. Inspired by the FLCCC (now the Independent Medical Alliance)\, she organized support for Dr. Paul Marik in his lawsuit against Sentara Health in Norfolk\, Virginia (2021). She has gone on to organize and lead the Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance\, a state wide organization seeking to restore and protect the unalienable individual right to medical freedom within the Commonwealth of Virginia. She has authored a chapter in Urban Legends on the evaluation and treatment of those with gender dysphoria. \nVenue & Details \nForest Hall at Chatham Mills\, 480 Hillsboro Street\, Suite 530\, Pittsboro\, NC\nForest Hall is located in a historic label mill built in the early 1900s\, the venue has wooden floors\, exposed brick walls and large windows. The 3500 square foot hall is located on 32 acres of woods and meadows in historic downtown Pittsboro\, NC\, just 20 minutes away from Chapel Hill and 40 minutes from Raleigh or Durham.  Catering is provided by 39 West Catering. \nTicket Information\n$50 per person includes a lovely buffet style dinner and a single beer or glass of wine.
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