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Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov (Russian: Фёдор Григорьевич Углов; 5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1904 – 22 June 2008) was a Soviet and Russian surgeon. In 1994 he was listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest practicing surgeon in the world. [1] [2] He retired from practice at the age of 102.
British orthopaedic surgeon, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons of England [51] Wanda Półtawska: 1921–2023: 101: Polish psychiatrist [52] Ingeborg Rapoport: 1912–2017: 104: German pediatrician [53] Paul Rohmer: 1876–1977: 100: French pediatrician and biologist [54] Andrew Best Semple: 1912 ...
Surgeons are now considered to be specialized physicians, whereas in the early ancient Greek world a trained general physician had to use his hands (χείρ in Greek) to carry out all medical and medicinal processes including, for example, the treating of wounds sustained on the battlefield, or the treatment of broken bones (a process called ...
At 89 years old Alla Ilyinichna Levushkina is believed to be the oldest working surgeon in Russia and quite possibly the world.
He was a Seventh-day Adventist and a World War II navy veteran. [5] Wareham retired as a cardiothoracic surgeon at the age of 74 but continued to associate himself with training residents at the Loma Linda University until the age of 95, during which time he drove 60 miles (100 km) to assist in operations.
George Berci (né Bleier; 14 March 1921 – 30 August 2024) was a Hungarian-American surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, United States and a pioneer in minimally invasive surgeries. He developed instruments for laparoscopic surgery [1] that have been incorporated into minimally invasive surgery techniques used today. [2] [3] [4]
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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