Richard Dean Smith

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.2008

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

A detailed history of the managed health care movement as recorded by Dr. Smith provides insight into the current turmoil in the medical profession. Relating physician behavior to the social psychology of mass movement gives us an understanding of the initial acceptance of the negative effects of managed care.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.1997

CRS: Computer Related Syndrome. The Prevention & Treatment of Computer-Related Injuries

If you're one of the millions who use computers at work or at home, the hours you spend in front of the monitor could be giving you a pain in the neck, back, hand, wrist, or arm. If so, you may be suffering from CRS. Tightness, stiffness, and pain of the upper extremities are common complaints of writers and computer users. Carpal tunnel pain, repetitive strain injuries,...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.1993

Melville's Science: Devilish Tantalization of the Gods?

ˆThe conflict of religion and science in the mid-19th century reflected in the works of Herman Melville.

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Captain Noon! Captain Noon! or Procrastination Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Captain Noon is in his last year at college. He sleeps till noon, he dreams of being a pilot. Time and opportunities slip away in procrastination. The narrator, his father, recalls his own father's instructions, "play for keeps," and the head of his high school "hoe-out your row." Get on with it. Finish what you do. A distant cousin Nora put off life and never...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.09.2012

Midnight at DeadSTRoke Billiard Club and Rispah Cafe

Jean Kendrick, a champion billiard player taught by DeadSTRoke, a grandmaster at billiards, was unable to win on the Women's Professional Billiard Tour: something held her back, and she returned to Rispah Junction. A young charismatic player, Corky, arrives with a beautiful young prostitute, Floppsie. The denizens of the poolroom don't trust Corky who is captivated by Jean....

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PUBLISHED: Aug.25.2011

POOL: It's Mental, It's Physical, Its Mystical

Sports and Recreation

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PUBLISHED: Jun.04.2009

Requiem for Doctor Edward Browne

Dr. Browne’s associate, Dr. Forbes Q. Hazzig, becomes a zealot for a ‘managed care revolution,’ i.e., cutthroat marketplace medicine. Browne and Dr. Kennes receive irrational, conflicting information from healthcare experts. Propaganda urging doctors into managed care does not make sense. Eld Krone counsels Browne, that rhetoric of a mass movement must be as erroneous as possible,...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.19.2009

Captain Noon! Captain Noon! Procrastination Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Captain Noon, in his last year atcollege, sleeps till noon. He dreams of being a pilot. Time and opportunitiesslip away in procrastination. The narrator, his father, recalls his ownfather’s instructions, “play for keeps,” and the head of his high school“hoe-out your row.” Get on with it. Finish what you do. A distant cousin Athorn in the side of members of the family, Nora lives...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.2008

The Circus of Medicine

Managed medical care, an irrational value-oriented medical mass movement, grew beyond its inherent worth, which was nil. Common sense and good judgment went out the window long ago. Satire attacks such mass madness, a mass hysteria: the function of satire when common sense, the press, academia, and regulatory agencies fail.

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PUBLISHED: Dec.01.1990

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

MELVILLE'S COMPLAINT: Doctors and Medicine in the Art of Herman Melville (Garland Studies in Nineteenth Century American Literature)

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.2008

Trust in a Medical Setting

Coping with difficult, distrustful people.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.2008

Managed Care: Anatomy of a Mass Medical Movement

Analysis of a typical irrational, value mass movement.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.2003

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

Dealing with difficult, distrustful people.

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Richard's Latest Blogs

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Jan.06.2010 - 9:38 am

My Work

The 'healthcare' debate includes many cogent opinions expressed in the daily news media, also many shortsighted, opinionated, self-serving statements that must be confusing and...

Dec.14.2009 - 6:04 pm

The Lights on Main Street

The Lights on Main Street Extravagant displays of dazzling lights, shimmering branches of colored foil, candy canes and wreaths exhibit beautiful Christmas decorations in...

Nov.25.2009 - 4:49 pm

Gratitude: Thanks anyway, doc.

from: Trust in a Medical Setting. Like most internists, part of my practice is seeing healthy patients who request physical examinations which generally prove to be...

Nov.16.2009 - 5:38 pm

On revolutions or mass movements, like managed medical care

We can add to the extensive list of mass movements, the mania for managed care, this stultitia epidemica the managed care mass movement—a fulsome list of foolery: the legions of...

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Aug.01.2010

Published by The US Review of Books

Book Review REQUIEM FOR DOCTOR EDWARD BROWNE reviewed by Deborah Straw "A sense of security in his [Dr. Browne's] pursuits, confidence he was part of something greater than...

About Richard

The author received medical education at Kansas University Medical Center, and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in internal medicine and rheumatology, and holds memberships in a number of professional societies and board certifications. He was Assistant...

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Causes Richard Smith Supports

Episcopal Charities.