About Robert M. Reece, M.D. Robert M. Reece, MD, retired in October 2010 as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of the Child Protection Program at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston. Before that he had directed Child Protection Programs at Boston City Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, was a consultant to the Child Protection Teams at the Massachusetts General Children’s Hospital, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth. He founded and was Director of the Institute for Professional Education at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children from 1993-2004 and began publishing The Quarterly Update in 1993. He has been a clinician, teacher and researcher in child maltreatment since 1970 and has been on the national boards and executive committees of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), Prevent Child Abuse (America), and the National Children’s Alliance, the International Advisory Board of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, the National Center for Child Fatality Review, and the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. He was Chair of the Child Abuse Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics from 1998-2002. Dr. Reece is the editor of the books Child Abuse: Medical Diagnosis and Management, now in its third edition, and Child Abuse Treatment: Common Ground for Mental Health, Medical and Legal Professionals, the second edition of which will be published in 2014. He co-edited the proceedings of a conference on Inflicted Childhood Neurotrauma, hosted in 2002 by several United States bureaus, including Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has published over 40 articles for medical journals, edited 10 books, contributed over 20 book chapters, and as Editor of The Quarterly Update he has written and published reviews of over 800 peer-reviewed articles. He has been named in all editions of The Best Doctors in America since 1992. APSAC named him the Outstanding Professional in the field of Child Maltreatment in 1997, the American Academy of Pediatrics gave him their Award for Outstanding Service to Maltreated Children in 2000, and the Helfer Society presented him the Award for Distinguished Contributions in the field of Child Maltreatment in 2003.
During a long and productive medical and academic career, Dr. Reece never lost his capacity for outrage at injustice and corruption. In Strong Medicine, he summons Dr. Tom Barrett and other people we learned to care about in his last novel, Double Blind Double Cross, to embody and express his outrage at the wrongdoing of so much of Big Pharma, to prove the enormity of the consequences of the wrongdoing, and to design a roadmap for correction. Dr. Reece tells an absorbing story, and, after reading it, it is impossible not to share his outrage. — Judge Richard Cohen
Once again, Bob Reece’s passion for righting wrongs, sharing his love and skill in medical intrigue, and his deep knowledge and lifetime of experience as a compassionate physician, benefit us all as his dedicated readers. In these crazy times it can be hard to get into a book. But Bob has a talent of quickly capturing and keeping your attention. Tom is back and fighting his personal demons and the bad guys for all of us. Turn the page. It will be hard to stop reading till you get to the end.” — Lew Stern, PhD
"Strong Medicine, a treat for lovers of medical thrillers and conspiracy theorists alike, sees the return of Tom Barrett in his second exciting adventure navigating the sinister motivations, fraud and corruption of America’s pharmaceutical industry. Barrett, the enduring protagonist we first saw in Double Blind Double Cross, finally allows his war-ravaged, PTSD-stricken surgeon psyche to find true purpose standing sentinel to address widespread wrongdoings among the nation’s Big Pharma giants. Strong Medicine’s whistleblowing crew remains committed to protecting the common good despite perils of violence, thievery, dalliances and deranged deal making, and emerges victorious among a cast of shady characters. Reece rises to the occasion with great skill in this page-turner, a captivating novel well-worth the read." Stephanie Deutsch, MD.
