Rex Daniel Russell (January 14, 1941—January 29, 2009)was a physician from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who authored the 1996 book, What the Bible Says About Healthy Living.Russell was also the first Arkansas doctor to perform angioplasties and stent placements for cardiovascular patients.
An Oklahoma native, Russell was diagnosed with diabetes in his teens but nevertheless managed to compete in athletics. In 1962, he was one of eight individuals chosen...
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Rex Daniel Russell (January 14, 1941—January 29, 2009)was a physician from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who authored the 1996 book, What the Bible Says About Healthy Living.Russell was also the first Arkansas doctor to perform angioplasties and stent placements for cardiovascular patients.
An Oklahoma native, Russell was diagnosed with diabetes in his teens but nevertheless managed to compete in athletics. In 1962, he was one of eight individuals chosen as annual "National Football Hall of Fame Scholars". He graduated from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, interned at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington, and then served his residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Russell retired from Sparks Regional Medical Center in Fort Smith after twenty-nine years of practice as a radiologist. In addition to the angioplasties, he was the first Arkansas doctor to perform tumor ablations, vertebroplasties, and...
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