Former Medical School Dean's Book Is A Hit

Clifton K. Meador, MD, former University of Alabama School of Medicine Dean (1968-1973), founder of the Medical Information Service via Telephone (MIST), and director of the General Clinical Research Center for 6 years, will speak at the annual AOA banquet on the evening of February 17 and sign his new bestseller Med School on February 18 from noon to 2pm at the Little Professor (2717 18th Street So, Homewood). On February 28, he will sign Med School prior to 31st Annual Medical Alumni luncheon, and at Books and Company in Brookwood Village from 4 to 6 pm.

In Med School, Dr. Meador, who was recruited to UAB by Tinsley Harrison, writes engagingly about his medical school years at Vanderbilt in the 1950s and captures the trials and tribulations, the insights and rewards that all medical students experience.

In 1973 Dr. Meador returned to Vanderbilt to join the full-time faculty as professor of medicine and establish the Vanderbilt teaching service in medicine at Saint Thomas Hospital, where he also served as chief medical officer until 1998, when he became the executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. He now is 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. Regarded as classics, these articles satirize the excesses of medical practice. He is the author of six books, including the best-selling medical book, A Little Book of Doctors’ Rules.

For more information about Dr. Meador's latest book, www.medschoolbook.com

For more information about Dr. Meador. www.mc.vanderbilt.edu