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An examination room in a typical doctor's office. Note the examination table, a key feature of almost all such rooms worldwide. A doctor's office in American English, a doctor's surgery in British English, or a doctor's practice, is a medical facility in which one or more medical doctors, usually general practitioners (GP), receive and treat patients.
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.
Theodor Kocher (1841–1917) — thyroid surgery; first surgeon to win the Nobel Prize; Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781–1826) — inventor of the stethoscope; Janet Lane-Claypon (1877–1967) — pioneer of epidemiology; Thomas Linacre (1460–1524) — founder of Royal College of Physicians; Joseph Lister (1827–1912) — pioneer of ...
SCA is the foundational corporate partner to the nonprofit One World Surgery. [28] One World Surgery funds and operates an ambulatory surgery center located near Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on the grounds of a 2,000 acre orphanage (part of the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos network) with more than 500 children. [29]
Andrews has performed surgery on many high-profile athletes. He first became known among athletes when Roger Clemens 's agent advised the pitcher to visit Andrews in 1985. [ 10 ] Andrews provided a second opinion to team doctors, performed a successful surgery on a torn labrum , and Clemens made a full recovery.
Hospital for Special Surgery was incorporated in New York City on March 27, 1863, as The Hospital of the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, [4] by a group that included Dr. James Knight, a general practicing physician, and Robert M. Hartley, a secretary of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
Medical doctors by specialty and nationality (46 C) * Fictional medical specialists (12 C, 22 P) A. Addiction physicians (7 C) Allergologists (18 P) Anatomists (11 C ...
The A75 is an autoroute in France.. Known also as la Méridienne, it is a developmental project with the aim of speeding up and reducing the cost of car travel from Paris southwards, and apart from the Millau Viaduct, it is entirely free for the 335 km (208 mi) between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers.