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, 19 March 1965. Rheumatology, 19 October 1976.

Academic Appointment: Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, Davis, 1974. Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine 1982 to 1990.

Chief Arthritis Section, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California, 1968 to 1992.

Associate Director Rehabilitation Services, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California, 1984 to Feb 1997.

Acting Medical Director December 1987—December 1988.

Medical Director Feb 1997 to May 2009.

Head of Institutional Review Board, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California, 1981—1984.

Member of Institutional Review Board, 1981 to 1996.

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, Jan 1991 to Jan 1992.

Best Book 2006 Awards Finalist.

Selected Works

Historical fiction, a mystery

Requiem for Doctor Edward Browne. iUniverse
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. iUniverse
Captain Noon, in his last year of college, sleeps till noon while time and chances slip away.

Medical management.

Trust in a Medical Setting. Hauppauge, NY: Novinka Books, Nova Science Publishers, 2006.

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

The Circus of Medicine. Lima, OH: Wyndham Hall Press, 2005.

Social commentary and medical care, an irrational mass movement.

Managed Care: Anatomy of a Mass Medical Movement, Lima, OH: Wyndham Hall Press, 2000.
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. Lima, OH: Wyndham Hall Press, 2001.

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. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1997.
Practical advice for the computer keyboard workers.