Accepting a challenge from his mentor to apply to Podiatry College, Dr. Hill embarked on his medical career following his graduation and surgical residency. In pursuit of a new challenge after eventually retiring from his practice, Dr. Hill followed his daughter into the teaching profession, a profession he originally had pursued over twenty years earlier. Over the past decade and a half he has challenged his students to bump up their own aspirations, just as his mentor had done for him. He still teaches middle school Science and STEM courses in Engineering and Medical Science. The current trend in education has put a focus on career readiness, and yet we have not seen a textbook that introduces students to medically-oriented careers. Medical Investigation 101 and the aligned workbook do just that by providing insights into how doctors analyze problems and conduct medial investigations. Whether students end up with a medically oriented career or not, the analytical skills required of physicians have applications in almost all careers we expect to see opening up in the future. Besides, It never hurts to have some basic medical knowledge tucked away when collaborating with a physician to maintain your own good health. Russ Hill and co-author Richard Griffith are First Cousins who grew up on opposite sides of this country, Griffith in Virginia and Hill in California. Griffith's Mother was the Sister of Hill's Father. Griffith was thirteen and Hill was eleven when they first met. Griffith's family had driven west for his Father to attend a summer workshop in economics and to visit their distant Hill relatives. They made that 6,000 miles round trip in the middle of summer with no radio or air conditioner in their car. Times were tough back then. The two cousins did not see one other in person again until seventeen years later when Hill's family visited the Griffith family in Virginia. In the ensuing years they have communicated by email as their friendship grew. They have gotten together a few times in New York, Montana, and Vermont, where Griffith now lives. In spite of the geographical barrier, they successfully collaborated by many e-mails for over a year in order to write this pair of books.