Richard Dean Smith, MD

Biography

B.S. Kansas State University.

M.D. Kansas University Medical Center.

Intership: Sacramento County Hospital, now University of California Davis Medical Center.

Residency: Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine.

Board Certified: Internal Medicine. Rheumatology.

Academic Appointment: Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, Davis. Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine.

Chief Arthritis Section, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California.

Associate Director Rehabilitation Services, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California.

Acting Medical Director December.

Medical Director to May 2009.

Head of Institutional Review Board, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California.

Member of Institutional Review Board.

Plummer Society, Mayo Clinic.

Philip S. Hench Society, Mayo Clinic.

Member: Author's Guild

Member: Redroom.com

Other:
Member Vestry, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Walnut Creek, CA.

Best Book 2006 Awards Finalist.

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.

Trust in a Medical Setting.

Satire of the absurdity of a national craze: managed care.

The Circus of Medicine.

Social commentary and medical care, an irrational mass movement.

Managed Care: Anatomy of a Mass Medical Movement.
an irrational mass movement.

Social commenary on an illogical mass movement, a mass hysteria.

The Rise and Fall of Managed Care: A Comprehensive History of a Mass Medical Movement.

Health of Keyboard Workers.

CRS: Computer-Related Syndrome: The Prevention and Treatment of Computer-Related Injuries. Richard Dean Smith, MD and Steven T. Garske, MS, PT.
Practical advice for the computer 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

Melville's Complaint: Doctors and Medicine in the Art of Herman Melville.

Outlines situations and problem individuals encountered and how to cope with them.

Trust: A Shock to the System: A Practical Guide.

Social importance of an irrational mass movement.

Rise and Fall of Managed Care: History of the Mass Medical Movement.

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