Published October, 2008
By Gary Presley
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
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In 1959, seventeen-year-old Gary Presley was standing in line, wearing his favorite cowboy boots and waiting for his final inoculation of Salk vaccine. Seven days later, a bad headache caused him to skip basketball practice. This memoir tells the story of his journey from the iron lung to life in a wheelchair.

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Published September, 2008
By John Canady
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
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Each year, more than 15,000 US medical students - along with more than 18,000 graduates of foreign medical schools and schools of osteopathic medicine - take part in the National Residency Matching Program. This is a guide to making one's way through the maze of residency applications and interviews.

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Published July, 2008
By Delese Wear and Janet Bickel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
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Includes essays that elucidate the various facets of teaching, valuing, and maintaining medical professionalism in the middle of the myriad challenges facing medicine at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

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Published April, 2008
By Loreen A. Herwaldt
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
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Uses the illness narratives of two dozen writer-patients to teach listening skills to medical students, residents, physicians, and other health care providers. This book includes poems which reveals the experience of illness and treatment from the patient's perspective.

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