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William Alexander Hammond (28 August 1828 – 5 January 1900) was an American military physician and neurologist.During the American Civil War he was the eleventh Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) and the founder of the Army Medical Museum (now the National Museum of Health and Medicine).
Silvano Raia (born 1930), Raia was the first surgeon to achieve a successful living donor liver transplantation in July 1989; B. K. Misra (born 1953), First neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery.
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Leonard Bailey, the surgeon who transplanted a baboon heart into a baby at Loma Linda University in 1984, trained under Wareham as a medical student in the late 1960s. The child, Baby Fae , was born prematurely with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and Bailey's surgery made international headlines.
The surgeon general is appointed by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate for a 4-year term of office. In carrying out all responsibilities, the surgeon general reports to the assistant secretary for health, who is the principal advisor to the secretary on public health and scientific issues.
Elizabeth Louise O'Riordan née Ball, was born in 1974 to surgeon and general practitioner Keith Ball and his wife Isobel, a nurse. [2] [3] [4] She has one brother.[5]After observing colorectal surgery during sixth form work experience, she decided she wished to be a surgeon.
Gawande published his first book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, containing revised versions of 14 of his articles for Slate and The New Yorker, in 2002. [4] It was a National Book Award finalist. [4] His second book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, was released in April 2007. It discusses three virtues that ...
Mehmet Cengiz Öz [a] (/ m ə ˈ m ɛ t ˈ dʒ ɛ ŋ ɡ ɪ z ɒ z / meh-MET JENG-gihz oz; Turkish: [mehˈmet dʒeɲˈɟiz øz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz (/ ɒ z /), is an American television presenter, physician, author, professor emeritus of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University, and former political candidate.