# Event Details - **Event Name**: An Evening with Dr. Alejandro Badia - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for an evening with medical practitioner & author Dr. Alejandro Badia for the release of his new book, HEALTHCARE FROM THE TRENCHES.About this Event? This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event! An RSVP grants general entry, but seating is not guaranteed, so please try and show up early. Please RSVP only if you intend to join us. Can't make the event? About The BookDr. Alejandro Badia is no stranger to the flaws and frustrations of the U.S. healthcare system. A leading hand surgeon with a medical degree from NYU, multiple accolades, and decades of experience, Dr. Badia has spent more than a quarter-century in the trenches of U.S. healthcare. His new book Healthcare from the Trenches is an open discussion of the failure of the U.S. healthcare system from the perspectives of its “providers” and patients—perspectives today’s healthcare debate sorely lacks.Dr. Badia shares the input from 27 contributors including physicians, therapists, nurses, hospital administrators, offering these seven solutions:1. Involve healthcare providers in the healthcare conversation—not just politicians, lobbyists, and insurance administrators who have no medical training or experience in patient care.2. Get rid of the middle-man—administrators and insurance companies—in the healthcare system to create a more efficient and less bloated system. Additional administrators only add to the cost of healthcare while doing nothing to contribute to actual care.3. Require Hospitals and Health Insurance companies become Non-Profit. Eliminate multi-million dollar salaries to executives for ‘withholding’ care to keep costs down and their paychecks UP!4. Encourage more all-in-one facilities so patients do not need to wait weeks for results they should be able to see in a few hours. Not only does this streamline care, but it significantly reduces costs as well.5. Require increased transparency in healthcare pricing.6. Teach Doctors to collaborate rather than compete. They must stand together in the healthcare debate, offering solutions rather than capitulating to lobbyists and insurance companies.7. Educate the public on the issues doctors and patients face from today’s inefficient healthcare system. Change can only come from a public that demands it.Dr. Badia explains, “Despite the political debates and media coverage on healthcare policy and reform, there remains little or no feedback from the people in the trenches—the physicians and other health care professionals who provide care to the patients. That’s why I wrote Healthcare from the Trenches. My hope is that a broader discussion of the issues can be a catalyst to positive change.”About The AuthorAlejandro Badia, M.D., F.A.C.S. has been in the trenches with our broken healthcare system since 1989. A hand and upper extremity orthopedic surgeon at Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Miami, Florida, Dr. Badia previously served as Chief of Hand Surgery at Baptist Hospital of Miami. He studied physiology at Cornell University and obtained his medical degree at New York University, where he also trained in orthopedics. A hand fellowship at Alleghany General Hospital in Pittsburgh was followed by an AO Trauma fellowship in Freiburg, Germany. He runs an active international hand fellowship and previously organized a yearly Miami meeting for surgeons and therapists that was devoted to upper limb arthroscopy and arthroplasty. In 2005, Dr. Badia cofounded the Miami Anatomical Research Center (M.A.R.C.), one of the world’s largest surgical cadaveric training labs.In 2008, he completed the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center, a fully integrated clinical facility for the upper limb also encompassing the Surgery Center at Doral, rehabilitation and an MRI imaging facility. More recently, Dr. Badia inaugurated OrthoNOW®, the first intermediate orthopedic urgent care center in South Florida. OrthoNOW® was officially franchised in early 2013 and is actively engaging healthcare entrepreneurs and surgeons, in North America and abroad, to open immediate orthopedic care facilities. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/1650d970-f81e-11f0-9f04-cbd844a8a117-rimg-w544-h740-dcffffff-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/coral-gables/an-evening-with-dr-alejandro-badia/100001981021031232 - **Event Categories**: nonprofit, workshops, health-wellness, art, literary-art, business, meetups - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fan-evening-with-dr-alejandro-badia-tickets-1981021031232 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Coral Gables - **state**: FL - **country**: United States - **location**: Books & Books - **lat**: 25.7505441 - **long**: -80.2599664 - **full address**: Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Books & Books (https://allevents.in/org/books-and-books/22514410) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/566761b41df22bbbee3d61033a7c9978df3c2d23398c41f54aaeed00bb18d27b-rimg-w1200-h600-dc353835-gmir.jpg?v=1769226505 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=An+Evening+with+Dr.+Alejandro+Badia&date=13+Feb ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Books & Books - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** nonprofit, workshops, health-wellness, art, literary-art, business, meetups - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about An Evening with Dr. Alejandro Badia ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "An Evening with Dr. Alejandro Badia", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/566761b41df22bbbee3d61033a7c9978df3c2d23398c41f54aaeed00bb18d27b-rimg-w1200-h600-dc353835-gmir.jpg?v=1769226505", "startDate": "2026-02-13", "endDate": "2026-02-13", "url": "https://allevents.in/coral-gables/an-evening-with-dr-alejandro-badia/100001981021031232", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Books & Books", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "265 Aragon Avenue", "postalCode": "33134", "addressLocality": "Coral Gables", "addressRegion": "FL", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "25.7505441", "longitude": "-80.2599664" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for an evening with medical practitioner & author Dr. Alejandro Badia for the release of his new book, HEALTHCARE FROM THE TRENCHES.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-13", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/coral-gables/an-evening-with-dr-alejandro-badia/100001981021031232" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/coral-gables/an-evening-with-dr-alejandro-badia/100001981021031232", "price": 0, "name": "Free Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Books & Books", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/books-and-books/22514410", "description": "Books & Books | Bookstore & CaféWe’re your independent, locally owned bookstore with five locations in South Florida – plus stores at Miami International Airport, and Key West, FL. We’re a community of writers and readers, now hosting free and ticketed virtual events and featuring a carefully curated selection for safe shopping or curbside pick-up.Bookstores:Coral Gables: 305-442-4408Bal Harbour Shops: 305-864-4241Adrienne Arsht Center: 786-405-1744Suniland Shops: 786-552-3290Coconut Grove: 305-477-0866Key West: 305-320-0208Café:Coral Gables: 305-448-9599" } ] } ] ```