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Richard A. Smith
1932–2017
United States
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Biography
Richard A. Smith (1932–2017) was an American physician who was part of the five-person team composing the Surgeon General's Office of Equal Health Opportunity (OEHO), which was charged with desegregating US hospitals in the mid-1960s. Smith developed one of the first Physician Assistant (PA) training programs in the US, MEDEX, and later founded MEDEX International.
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