Tales of a Country Surgeon - Softcover

Gus Iwasiuk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976392852 ISBN 13: 9780976392859

Publisher: Cutting Edge Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Autobiographical stories beginning during WWII with political and historic implications mixed with personal adventures involiving the major health issues of our times.

About this title

About the Author

Gus Iwasiuk is the Program Director of the General Surgery Residency at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, California, and the Assistant Professor of Surgery for Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona. He has been a practicing surgeon since 1981 and was a doctor in general practice for eight years prior to that. While serving in the United States Air Force for two years during the Vietnam War, he attained the rank of major, coming home to practice medicine in Ventura.

 

Gus was born Gösta Werner Iwasiuk in Linz, Austria, in 1943. His family immigrated in 1954 to the U.S., settling in Peoria, Illinois, where he graduated as valedictorian of his high school class. He received his bachelor's degree from Bradley University and started medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, but finished his M.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating with honors and inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honorary fraternity.

 

He interned at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center and did his general-practice residency at Ventura County Hospital, where he was chief resident in his final year. In 1977, he decided to do a surgical residency at the University of California, Irvine, finishing at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara.

 

Gus is board-certified in general surgery and, upon re-certifying, attained a ranking in the 99th percentile nationwide. His professional interests run the gamut of surgery, especially laparoscopic and robotic. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and has served as a board member of the Southern California chapter. He has also served as president of the Ventura County Medical Society, as well as chief of staff of both Ventura County Medical Center and Santa Paula Memorial Hospital. He was also a delegate to the California Medical Association.

 

Dr. Iwasiuk is available for speaking engagements and interviews. You can visit his website at gusiwasiuk.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Cutting Edge Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976392852
• ISBN 13: 9780976392859
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Gosta Werner Iwasiuk
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Mary Jane Iwasiuk, Beth Bruno, Dan Murphy