On this episode of Our American Stories, Daryn Glassbrook of the Mobile Medical Museum tells the story of the iron lung, a device used to keep people with advanced polio alive in the first half of the 20th century. Indian American hotelier H.P. Rama the story of the ethical dilemma he presented to the then President of Days Inn, Mike Leven.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Trapped Inside a Tube: The Iron Lung Story

10:00 - H.P. Rama, The Accidental Hotelier