I am an American family medicine physician, living in Beijing, China since 2007 and working in a local expat clinic, the International Medical Center. I hail from San Francisco, where I received my ABFP diploma in family medicine from UCSF Santa Rosa. I received my M.D. at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and my bachelors degree from Columbia University. I have previously worked in a rural community clinic, urgent care centers, and private clinics in California and Beijing. I also run the public health website MyHealthBeijing.com and am currently working towards a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

I started this website to provide evidence-based medical information, discussed in an easy format for adults and children. The emphasis is on family health and wellness. There are a lot of confusing and contradictory signals out there as to what works for your health; so I hope I can be your guide to proper prevention of disease, which for a family doctor is just as important as treating the disease. I welcome all comments and suggestions!

Please don’t forget that my advice should be used to complement, and not to replace, advice from your own health doctors. Also, you can relax that I am not collecting any personal data, nor am I selling any visitor logs to anyone. I have strict ethical codes on this site, which is why my other site already has been approved by the HONCode of trusted medical websites, a UN-approved NGO.

Advertising and Sponsorship

My website currently has no sponsorships and no advertising. This is purely a personal website done in my spare time.

Posting Comments

Comments are welcome under each post. Anyone is welcome to comment. Each comment is sent to me for pre-approval. Please use respect for others in your posts. You can edit your comments after they go up. No one is allowed to use comments to advertise. Please provide references to medical articles when discussing specific information. You must post information which is true and correct to your knowledge.

Contact Me

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Cheers,
Richard

P.S. Feel free to check out my photography website.