Submit Release Iowa City, IA Doctor & Author Publishes Medical Book March 11, 2021 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News What Was I Thinking? Toxic Shock Syndrome, a new book by Dr. Patrick M Schlievert, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. Dr. Patrick M Schlievert was in his first year as an assistant professor of Microbiology and Immunology, having spent two years trying to get the medical and scientific communities to recognize that there was a disease called toxic shock syndrome. Because he could not get even the Federal Government to recognize this disease, he started a national news media blitz that became second only to the Iran hostage crisis in 1980. Dr. Schlievert took this chance at great risk to his career because he grew up poor and had to take risks even to stay alive, and because his allegiance was to the American public and not to the biomedical science community.