swap_horiz George Crile Sr. Alternatives

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William Stewart Halsted

William Stewart Halsted was an American surgeon who helped shape modern surgical education at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He...

American General Pioneer Oncology

9.6 Brilliant

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Walton Lillehei

Walton Lillehei was an American cardiac surgeon who helped make open-heart operations for congenital defects possible. A...

American Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.5 Brilliant

3

John Kirklin

John Kirklin was an American cardiac surgeon who helped establish reliable open-heart surgery using mechanical cardiopul...

American Pioneer Cardiac Mayo Clinic

9.5 Brilliant

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Judah Folkman

Judah Folkman was an American pediatric surgeon and biomedical researcher who proposed that tumor growth depends on angi...

American Pioneer Pediatric Oncology

9.2 Excellent

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Albert Starr

Albert Starr is an American cardiac surgeon who worked with engineer Lowell Edwards to develop the Starr-Edwards prosthe...

American Pioneer Cardiac Valve

9.1 Excellent

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Ralph Millard

Ralph Millard was an American plastic surgeon known for developing the rotation-advancement method of unilateral cleft l...

American Pioneer Plastic Cleft Lip

9.1 Excellent

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Evarts Graham

Evarts A. Graham was an American thoracic surgeon who performed the first successful one-stage pneumonectomy for lung ca...

American Pioneer Thoracic Pneumonectomy

9.1 Excellent

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Patrick Walsh

Patrick C. Walsh is an American urologic surgeon known for developing the anatomical approach to radical retropubic pros...

American Pioneer Urological Nerve Sparing

9.1 Excellent

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William Macewen

William Macewen (1848-1924) was a Scottish surgeon associated with the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the University of Gla...

General Pioneer Scottish Aseptic

8.9 Great

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Sterling Bunnell

Sterling Bunnell was an American surgeon whose work helped establish hand surgery as a distinct surgical specialty. Duri...

American Wwii Pioneer Hand

8.9 Great

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Mason Sones

F. Mason Sones Jr. (1918-1985) was an American physician and cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who established select...

American Pioneer Cardiac Coronary

8.8 Great

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Owen Wangensteen

Owen H. Wangensteen was an American surgeon and longtime chair of surgery at the University of Minnesota. He developed t...

American General Pioneer Gastrointestinal

8.3 Great

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Jonathan Rhoads

Jonathan Rhoads was an American surgeon and medical researcher associated with the University of Pennsylvania. Working w...

American General Pioneer Oncology

8.2 Great

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Irving Lichtenstein

Irving L. Lichtenstein was an American surgeon known for developing and promoting a tension-free approach to open inguin...

American General Pioneer Hernia

8.1 Great

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William Longmire

William P. Longmire Jr. was an American surgeon who became the founding chair of the Department of Surgery at the Univer...

American General Pioneer Hepatic

7.9 Good

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Isidor Ravdin

Isidor Schwaner Ravdin was an American surgeon and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose career combined cli...

American Wwii General Pioneer

7.8 Good

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Eddie Joe Reddick

Eddie Joe Reddick was an American general surgeon associated with the early adoption of laparoscopic gallbladder removal...

American General Pioneer Minimally Invasive

7.8 Good

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Lloyd Nyhus

Lloyd Nyhus was an American surgeon at the University of Illinois who developed the preperitoneal approach to inguinal h...

American General Pioneer Hernia

7.6 Good

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Hiram Polk

Hiram C. Polk Jr. was an American academic surgeon whose career was closely associated with the University of Louisville...

American General Pioneer Colorectal

7.5 Good

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Claude Welch

Claude E. Welch was an American surgeon associated for much of his career with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvar...

American General Pioneer Colorectal

7.5 Good