A memoir by Peter Rhee, MD, medical director of the UMC Trauma Center at the University of Arizona, will be published this June, according to the Arizona Daily Star. In Trauma Red: The Making of a Surgeon in War and in America’s Cities, Dr. Rhee recounts efforts to build southern Arizona’s only Level I trauma center. Dr. Rhee treated former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and other victims of the January 2011 shooting in Tucson. Full Story
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