Med School A Collection Of Stories About Medical School, 1951-1955

Clifton K. Meador graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1955, sharing the Founder's Medal for top scholastic honors with a classmate, Vernon Reynolds. Dr. Tinsley Harrison, then-outgoing chairman of medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, recruited him to the faculty in Birmingham. Dr. Meador directed the N.I.H. Clinical Research Center at the university for six years, advanced to professor of medicine, and served as dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham from 1968 to 1973. In 1973 Dr. Meador returned to Vanderbilt to join the full-time faculty as professor of medicine and to establish the Vanderbilt teaching service in medicine at Saint Thomass Hospital. Dr. Meador also served as chief medical officer of the hospital until 1998, when he became the executive director of the newly formed Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. He is now professor of medicine at both medical schools and continues to direct the programs of the alliance. Dr. Meador has published extensively in the medical literature; he is perhaps best known for "The Art and Science of Nondisease" and "The Last Well Person," both published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and "A Lament for Invalids," published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The articles are satiric treatments of the excesses of medical practice. He is the author of seven books, including the bestselling medical book, A Little Book of Doctors' Rules. Dr. Meador lives in Nashville with his wife, Kathleen. He has seven children and seven grandchildren.Meador, Clifton is the author of 'Med School A Collection Of Stories About Medical School, 1951-1955' with ISBN 9781577363118 and ISBN 1577363116.