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Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 [a] – August 4, 1931) was an American surgeon and hospital founder. He founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.
Barnard performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation in the early morning hours of Sunday 3 December 1967. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 42 ] Louis Washkansky , a 54-year-old grocer who was suffering from diabetes and incurable heart disease , was the patient.
B. K. Misra — 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. [1] Frederic E. Mohs (1910–2002) — responsible for the method of surgery now called Mohs surgery
James D. Hardy (May 14, 1918 – February 19, 2003) was an American surgeon who performed the world's first lung transplant into John Russell, who lived 18 days. The transplant was performed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi on June 11, 1963.
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman.A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease.
Doctors who remember what it was like before abortion was legal in the U.S. warn of the dangers if Roe v Wade is overturned. Doctors who worked before Roe v. Wade speak out: ‘Many women died’
Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
Before becoming the screen legend we all know today — from films like The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and Bruce Almighty (2003) — he used his iconic voice in roles on soap operas like Ryan's ...