Richard Dean Smith, MD

Selected Articles and Stories

Description of new work

Selected Works


Pool: It's Mental. It's Physical. It's Mystical.
Pool: more than mental, more than physical, it's partly mystical.

Historical fiction, a mystery
Requiem for Doctor Edward Browne.
A doctor and family struggle to survive in the era of managed care. Dr. Browne uncovers deception by government, insurance companies, consultants, hospitals, and others.
Fiction
Captain Noon! Captain Noon! Procrastination Considered as One of the Fine Arts.
Captain Noon, in his last year of college, sleeps till noon while time and chances slip away.
Medical management.
Satire of the absurdity of a national craze: managed care.
Social commentary and medical care, an irrational mass movement.
Social commenary on an illogical mass movement, a mass hysteria.
Health of Keyboard Workers.
Literary Criticism
Melville's Science: "Devilish Tantalization of the Gods!"
The role of the conflict of science and religion in the mid-nineteenth century in the works of Herman Melville.
Literary / Medical
Outlines situations and problem individuals encountered and how to cope with them.
Social importance of an irrational mass movement.