The Mill - Softcover

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Raised in Aliquippa, a steel town in western Pennsylvania, Rade B. Vukmir, J.D., grew up in a family that was intimately involved in the steel industry. His grandfather worked as a blast furnace watertender for fifty-five years and his father worked as a rigger at the mill until his death in an industrial accident in 1973. His mother was also employed as a machinist's helper and Vukmir himself worked as a summer employee in the blast furnace as well at the Aliquippa plant. With advanced degrees in both medicine and law, Dr. Vukmir is president of Critical Care Medicine Associates, a medical administrative and consulting enterprise. Dr. Vukmir has written forty-three medical journal articles and is the author of seven books, including Outcome of the Critically Ill: Medicine, Surgery and Trauma (Parthenon Publishing, 2000), Airway Management in the Critically Ill (Parthenon Publishing, 2001), Lessons Learned (University Press of America, 2003); The ER: A Year in the Life (Hamilton Books, 2005); The ER: One Good Thing a Day (Hamilton Books, 2008), and The Maximally Efficient and Optimally Effective Emergency Department (University Press of America, 2009).