GUEST OVERVIEW: Dr. Berdine graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 earning a B.S. degrees in Chemistry and a second B.S. degree in Life Sciences. He graduated from Harvard School of Medicine in 1978 earning the M.D. degree. Specialty training in Internal Medicine and subspecialty training in Pulmonary Diseases was at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Dr. Berdine found the taxation in Massachusetts to be oppressive, so in 1984 he moved to the relatively free environment of Texas where he has remained since. Dr. Berdine was on the faculty at University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio doing research in basic respiratory gas exchange physiology and teaching students in the medical arts until 1989 when capricious and arbitrary rule by federal bureaucrats drove him into the entrepreneurial realm of private practice. Dr. Berdine left private practice in 2009 due to declining health and resumed academic medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock where he remains today. In addition to direct patient care and teaching of medical students, Dr. Berdine writes about the virtues of the free market in solving health care problems as well as the hazards of letting government make a mess of things. The recent COVID pandemic with authoritarian lockdowns, mandates of inadequately tested vaccines, and barbaric isolation of patients from family have provided numerous examples of letting government make a mess of things. He is an affiliate of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. His commentary and analyses can be found at Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles, Mises.org, and AIER. His latest commentary includes criticism of isolating patients from family, explaining physician burnout as a form of rent dissipation, a critical examination of excess deaths during COVID, and the very real hazards of COVID vaccines.