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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 ...
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.
At 89 years old Alla Ilyinichna Levushkina is believed to be the oldest working surgeon in Russia and quite possibly the world.
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.
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub (Arabic: د/مجدى حبيب يعقوب [ˈmæɡdi ħæˈbiːb jæʕˈʔuːb]; born 16 November 1935) is an Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's ...
Tomiko Itooka, a 116-year-old Japanese woman who became the oldest living person in August 2024, died on Dec. 29, 2024, according to Guinness World Records. Her death was confirmed by Guinness ...
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]