Dr. Richard Cranson Bird M.D., M.P.H.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Preventive Medicine/Occupational Environmental Medicine
Upham's Corner Health Center, 500 Columbia Road Mail Stop 415-01 Dorchester MA, 02125Rating
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Richard Bird is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Dorchester, MA. Bird specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Bird participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Boston University School of Medicine 1989
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Data provided by the National Library of MedicineTreatments
- Diabetes
- Hepatitis
- Pinched Nerve
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd)
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Gastritis
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Hepatitis C
- Pain
- Opiate Dependence
- Schizophrenia
- Neck
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