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  2. List of surgeons - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of physicians - Wikipedia

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    George E. Goodfellow (1855–1910) — recognized as first U.S. civilian trauma surgeon, expert in gunshot wound treatment; Henry Gray (1827–1861) — English anatomist and surgeon, creator of Gray's Anatomy; Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) — physician and anatomist; William Harvey (1578–1657) — English physician, described the circulatory ...

  4. History of surgery - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the 1840s, European surgery began to change dramatically in character with the discovery of effective and practical anesthetic chemicals such as ether, first used by the American surgeon Crawford Long (1815–1878), and chloroform, discovered by James Young Simpson (1811–1870) and later pioneered in England by John Snow (1813 ...

  5. Michael DeBakey - Wikipedia

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    Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. [1] His career spanned nearly eight decades.

  6. List of cardiologists - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation Fernando Antonio Bermúdez Arias: 1933: 2007: Venezuela: Barouh Berkovits: 1926: 2012: Czechoslovakia: Pioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers [9] Richard N. Fogoros: United States [10] Werner Forssmann: 1904: 1979: Germany: 1929 first cardiac ...

  7. List of neurologists and neurosurgeons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of neurologists and neurosurgeons, with their year of birth and death and nationality.This list compiles the names of neurologists and neurosurgeons with a corresponding Wikipedia biographical article, and is not necessarily a reflection of their relative importance in the field.

  8. Ephraim McDowell - Wikipedia

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    Ephraim McDowell (November 11, 1771 – June 25, 1830) was an American physician and pioneer surgeon. The first person to successfully remove an ovarian tumor , he has been called "the father of ovariotomy" [ 1 ] as well as founding father of abdominal surgery .

  9. Category:American surgeons - Wikipedia

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    B. Franklin Bache; Russ Bailey; Andrew Baldwin; Frederick J. Bancroft; Amos W. Barber; Riad Barmada; William Barnes (entomologist) Bradford Barrett; Edward K. Barsky