Dr. Todd Rice is a board-certified anesthesiologist with both private and academic medical practice experience who follows with great interest the development of the direct care and transparent-pricing models in medicine. He is treasurer of the Missouri state chapter of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a physician group that focuses on strengthening the physician-patient relationship. Dr. Rice is currently the Director of Anesthesiology at the Center for Advanced Medicine - South County in St. Louis, and an assistant professor at Washington University School of Medicine. He is an occasional blogger on topics of free markets and state interventionism at his site theindividualmind.com and can be contacted at mtoddrice@gmail.com