The Bruce Collins Show- 01/15/14- Guest: Dr. Clifton Meador

Published: Jan. 16, 2014, 4:23 a.m.

b'For over fifty years, Clifton K. Meador has been practicing and teaching medicine. This, his thirteenth book, complements his published writings and his well-known satiric articles noting the clinical excesses of modern American medicine, including \\u201cThe Art and Science of Nondisease,\\u201d published in the New England Journal of Medicine (1965), \\u201cThe Last Well Person\\u201d also in the New England Journal of Medicine (1994), \\u201cA Lament for Invalids\\u201d in the Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA 1992) and \\u201cClinical Man: Homo Clinicus,\\u201d published in Pharos (2011). His last book True Medical Detective Stories (2012) was dedicated to Berton Roueche, writer for the New Yorker and creator of the genre of medical detective stories. A graduate of Vanderbilt University in 1955, Dr. Meador has served as executive director of the Meharry Vanderbilt Alliance since 1999, and is a emeritus professor of medicine at both Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Meharry Medical College. Past posts include chief of medicine and chief medical officer of Saint Thomas Hospital (then a major teaching hospital for Vanderbilt) and dean of the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Dr. Meador lives with his wife, Ann, in Nashville. He is the father of seven, and has seven grandchildren and one great granddaughter.

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BRUCE COLLINS is a former pro wrestling promoter, an author of three published books (one of them with Brett Wagner, the host of The Speed Channel\\u2019s PASS TIME and voice of Monster Garage and another book with Ric Drasin, the middle Hulk in the 1970\\u2019s Incredible Hulk tv show with Bill Bixby and the creator of the Gold\\u2019s Gym logo) and the former book reviewer of Monster Radio, which was nationally syndicated in 84 radio markets. Bruce has hosted The Bruce Collins Show (and its\\u2019 genesis known as The Big Finale) since January, 2006. The Bruce Collins Show graduated to AM radio in 2009 and spent two years broadcasting at WSMN 1590 AM in Nashua, New Hampshire and WWZN 1510 AM in Boston, MA. Currently, the program resides online at www.fringeradionetwork.com . Based on the AM radio exposure, he was approached by the History Channel\\u2019s Decoded TV (with bestselling author Brad Meltzer) to audition for their program. After learning he would have to interview occultists and numerologists without expressing his own opinions, he turned down the invitation. Bruce\\u2019s grandfather was a Pastor\\xa0in various locations in the United States for over 50 years. \\xa0Bruce is the self-proclaimed Baron of Broadcasting and the \\u2018Clown Prince of Doom\\u2019.
CHAD MILES is the co-host of The Bruce Collins Show. He is also a former contributing editor for Defense Watch Magazine and former contributor to The Michigan Journal. In 2006 Chad ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in Michigan\\u2019s 14th Congressional District. He served seven years on active duty with the 82nd Airborne Division, 2nd Infantry Division and the 5th Special Forces Group. His Military service as an infantryman and intelligence analyst took him around the world with service in the countries of Jordan, Egypt, South Korea and Panama.\\xa0 Chad is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. He was the creator and founder of the wildly popular Hearken the Watchmen website which featured articles from Chuck Missler, L.A. Marzulli, Michael Hoggard and many others. Miles appeared on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory to talk about drones over Miami, Florida. Chad is known as \\u201cThe Odometer\\u201d and \\u201cCaptain Doomsday.\\u201d
THE BRUCE COLLINS SHOW is known as the new theatre of the mind in a way that no other program is able to capture. It is an \\u2018out of the box\\u2019 program, having interviewed a plethora of guests, such as Jesse Ventura, Kevin Trudeau, Gerald Celente, Alex Jones, Texe Marrs, L.A. Marzulli, Congressman James Rogan, Stryper\\u2019s Michael Sweet, Megadeth\\u2019s Dave Ellefson, Actor Brett Wagner, stuntman Chris Carnel, WND\\u2019s Joseph Farah, Wally \\u201cFamous\\u201d Amos,'