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One in a Million: A Memoir[1] is the autobiography of Mary G. Clark of Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, a medical pioneer who turned the dream of healing into a multimillion dollar firm. The book was ghostwritten by Jeff Widmer, and published in 2001 by the University of Scranton Press.
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The book was ghostwritten by Jeff Widmer (The Spirit of Swiftwater) and published in 2001 by the University of Scranton Press.
Synopsis
editOne in a Million chronicles Clark's life as she struggled through poverty and abuse. The daughter of a miner, she faced sickness, fire, divorce, and venture capitalists to take her company from a garage in coal country to the Nasdaq. A registered nurse and licensed physicians assistant, Clark pioneered techniques of wound healing and nutritional counseling during a time when smoking and diet pills were normal. She served the famous and the infamous, including Joe Kopechne, father of Mary Jo Kopechne.[citation needed]
Dermasciences, the company she founded and took public, marketed a product she invented called Dermagran, a skin salve used to treat decubitus ulcers, or bedsores.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ George, Helen. "A life well lived, a story well told: One in a Million, Pocono Record, December 13, 2001