Dr. Richard Neal Olans MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
830 Main St Melrose MA, 02176About
Dr. Richard Olans is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Melrose, MA. Dr. Olans specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1970
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The secret life of a hospital epidemiologist ... with apologies to Dr. Mitty.
- The Critical Role of the Staff Nurse in Antimicrobial Stewardship--Unrecognized, but Already There.
- Reply to Ressner et al.
- Good Nursing Is Good Antibiotic Stewardship.
- Antibiotic therapy for staphylococcal infections .
- Antibiotic therapy for staphylococcal infections .
- R-factor transfer in selenite and tetrathionate broths.
- Bacteremic W-135 meningococcal pneumonia.
- Instructions for intravenous infusion.
- Reversible oxacillin hepatotoxicity.
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