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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

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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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James Young Simpson

James Young Simpson was a Scottish obstetrician and physician who introduced chloroform anesthesia into medical practice...

19TH Century Pioneer Scottish Obstetrics

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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Nikolai Pirogov

Nikolai Pirogov was a Russian surgeon, anatomist, and educator whose work influenced military medicine and surgical anat...

Military Russian Anatomy 19TH Century

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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Hugh Owen Thomas

Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) was a Welsh surgeon whose work helped establish modern orthopedics in Britain. He developed...

Orthopedic 19TH Century Pioneer British

9.0 Excellent

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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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Folkert Belzer

Folkert O. Belzer (1930-1995) was an American transplant surgeon whose research focused on preserving organs outside the...

American Pioneer Transplant Kidney

8.8 Great

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Hugh Hampton Young

Hugh Hampton Young (1870-1945) was an American surgeon and urologist associated with Johns Hopkins Hospital. He became t...

American Prostate Pioneer Johns Hopkins

8.8 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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Ernest Amory Codman

Ernest Amory Codman was an American surgeon who advocated systematic measurement and public reporting of medical outcome...

American Orthopedic Pioneer Shoulder

8.7 Great

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Dwight Harken

Dwight Harken was an American cardiac surgeon known for advances made during and after the Second World War. While treat...

American Wwii Pioneer Cardiac

8.6 Great

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John Rock

John Rock was an American obstetrician and gynecologist who played a central role in the clinical development of the com...

American Pioneer Reproductive Contraception

8.6 Great

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Harry Buncke

Harry J. Buncke was an American plastic and reconstructive surgeon associated with the development of modern microsurger...

American Pioneer Plastic Microsurgery

8.6 Great

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Richard TeLinde

Richard Wesley TeLinde was an American gynecologic surgeon associated with the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medi...

American Textbook Pioneer Oncology

8.3 Great