I have been attempting to provide quality patient care while complying with policies, procedures, and practices as a medical student, general practitioner, emergency room physician, and psychiatrist since 1970 This book distills my lifetime experience as, a child, adolescent, and adult. Context: my first memories are living on a subsistence farm with my grandmother, uncle, and two youngest aunts in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1952 and 1953. After that I lived in the Shady Lane Trailer Park by 9 Mile Road and Ryan in Warren, Michigan from 1955 to 1958. My best friends were Southern Baptists from West Virginia and Alabama. I then lived in East Detroit, Michigan from 1958 to 1972 while attending Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and Wayne State University School of Medicine. I completed psychiatric residency training at Lafayette Clinic and Northville State Hospital from 1972 to 1975. I attended Wayne State University Law School in 1979 to 1983 in the night school part time program. I was Board Certified in Psychiatry in 1977 and licensed to practice law in Michigan in 1983. I have practiced general medicine, emergency room medicine, psychiatry in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, California, and Texas without interruption since 1972. I have worked in Regional Medical Centers, State Psychiatric Hospitals, Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals, private practice, multispecialty clinics, and prisons. I have been an expert witness in psychiatry in probate court, state and federal courts, in civil and criminal trials. I have been traveling the country as a contract psychiatrist with over 20 assignments since 2008. I am here to do no harm and to help if I can. Be kind and you can be my friend. William R. Yee M.D., J.D. at your service
Author Biography:
Dr. Yee started medical School at Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1968. Dr. Yee worked as an Emergency Room Physician at Detroit General Hospital in 1973 and 1974 "moonlighting" from 9 pm to 7 am Friday and Saturday nights for $16 an hour. That was $160 a shift and at that time Dr. Yee was able to buy a Volkswagen Beetle without a radio and without air conditioning for $1600 cash. Since then, Dr. Yee has worked at Riverside Psychiatric Hospital, a prison hospital, Bellamy Creek Prison and I-Max prisons in Ionia Michigan, Brooks and Muskegon Prisons in Muskegon, Michigan, Pelican Bay, CSP-Sac, and San Quentin Prisons in California. Dr. Yee has worked at Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital and Caro State Hospital in Michigan and Atascadero and Patton State Hospitals in California. These are Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals for the Criminally Insane, and Incompetent to Stand Trial, and the Not Guilty by virtue of Insanity. Dr. Yee has appeared as an expert in psychiatry in probate court, state and federal courts, in civil and criminal trials in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and California. Dr. Yee has been the Medical Director at Southwestern Indiana Community Mental Health in Evansville, Indiana and the Bowen Center in Warsaw Indiana for a total of twelve years. Dr. Yee was in private practice from 1977 to 1984 in Taylor, Michigan and was the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Heritage Hospital in Taylor, Michigan. Dr. Yee was an Expert Witness in Psychiatry for the Michigan Attorney General in the early 1990's doing Peer Review for Medicaid Claims for Psychiatric Hospital admissions and billings. Dr. Yee worked with active-duty military at Fort Hood Texas during a period where the entire chain of command was relieved of their assignments after a soldier was murdered at Fort Hood. Dr. Yee has had the privilege of over 20 contract assignments as a traveling psychiatrist since 2008 in Michigan, Kentucky, California, and Texas. Dr. Yee has had the privilege of treating thousands of patients in many places for many years. Dr. Yee has seen extraordinary changes in the practice of medicine since 1970. Dr. Yee is here to do no harm and help if he can. May you live long and well. Be kind and you can be my friend. Thank you for your time. William R. Yee M.D., J.D. Board Certified in Psychiatry and Licensed to practice law in Michigan.
