title: James P. Gallagher, MD. Scrappy former boxer fights to maintain physicians' voices.
abstract: It's been an adventurous life for James Gallagher, MD, from medical school in Ireland where he was a scrappy welterweight student boxer to one of the state's foremost cardiologists, and current president of the Wayne County Medical Society. Born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1932, the fifth in an ultimate full house of nine children, Doctor Gallagher attended medical school at the National University of Dublin.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D001914:Boxing / Q000266:history; D002309:Cardiology / Q000266:history; D018166:Health Care Reform; D049673:History, 20th Century