Environmental Health Center

It i he privilege to be able to both learn from and be need refertreated by Dr. Rea. He is a pioneer. and leader in this field. There are often other physicians here both as patients and also to learn from him, including physicians from other countries. He has a very capable staff supporting the practice and a wonderful assistant. He sees every single patient himself and directs their care. You may be familiar with the several volume texts that he has written which are the latest and most informative in the field. They are heavily referenced with scientific data from the medical literature.

Kristina Dahl · Published June 21, 2017

A wonderful physician (former heart surgeon, I think); possessor of a wealth of knowledge and experience. He was extremely attentive, took his time, carefully listened to my complained and assessed the documentation I showed him; and advised a number of tests that I will complete when I feel again seriously concerning symptoms. The clinic is very nice, too, and the staff extremely professional and welcoming. Thank you, Dr. Rea.

Gabriela N. Anderson · Published February 20, 2019

I came to Dr. William Rea as a borderline special needs case. I was five. I drooled constantly from my mouth. I had trouble reading, speaking, remembering, moving and hearing. My mother was talking to a doctor in New York who was unsure how to help me but familiar with Dr. William Rea. He told her, “if it is in your means, board a plane to Dallas, tonight.” She did. That was December 23rd, 2001. On December 24th my mother attempted to get a rental car to the Dr. William Rea’d office so I could have a vitamin IV, a treatment he specialized in. The car caught fire. She broke down at the side of a gas station into tears that Christmas Eve, in front of a previously flaming, now merely very hot, car, next to her 5 year old son (me). A police officer happened to notice her and asked if he could assist us. We entered Dr. Rea’s office with 5 minutes before they closed. They said they could no longer take us that day, the necessary people had gone home, but they managed to get a hold of a nurse who was willing to come to my hotel the following day. That nurse spent Christmas morning treating me. The drooling stopped within a few hours. My regular asthma attacks, which landed me in the hospital with great frequency and came almost daily dwindled until the point where I was no longer asthmatic. My height, which had been in the 50th percentile for my age, almost immediately exploded. I am 6’5 now. I recently got a 176 on my LSATs. No one ever talked of special needs schools for me again. There were a lot of Doctors who helped me over the course of my life. People like Dr. Rahav, my present care physician, Dr. Leo Galland, Dr. Boris, and Dr. LeMonica, all great doctors in their own right. I do not wish to diminish their contributions. But Dr. William Rea shone as a beacon, an authority to them all. Dr. William Rea attracted the kind of coworkers who happily spent Christmas Day with someone else’s child rather than their own. Dr. William Rea kept working until he was 83, and stopped only because he died.

Benton Madsen · Published May 25, 2022