Barnes & Noble to Host Book Signing for Parkland Hospital

Local author, Dr. John W. Boyd, will be available to sign copies of book


In 1890, Dallas was a frontier town with medical care delivered by doctors on horseback. The poorly funded city hospitals were ill equipped and had no real medication or nurses. It is difficult to look back on history and define the moment when modern medicine began, but for Dallas, that moment was in 1894 with the building of Parkland Hospital. As Dallas grew and felt the pain of the polio epidemic, world wars, and the Kennedy assassination, Parkland Hospital was there. This is the story of Parkland Hospital and its 120-year journey from frontier medicine to becoming one of the world’s premier medical centers.

Highlights from Parkland Hospital include:

         •Many of the photographs from over 15 different collections          depict never before seen images being published for the first time!

         •Parkland Hospital’s story is told from its start in 1894 to its most recent move into its fourth new facility in August 2015.

         •The medical school has been home to six Nobel Laureates and         three NASA astronauts.

         • The author of the title completed his residency at Parkland Hospital as a student at UT Southwestern.

Join the author for a signing:

Where:  Barnes & Noble

7700 West Northwest Highway, Suite 300

Dallas, TX 75225

When: Thursday, January 21st, 2016 at 7:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online (https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467134002).

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