swap_horiz Hugh Devine Alternatives

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John Heysham Gibbon

John Heysham Gibbon was a pioneering American surgeon instrumental in the development of modern cardiac surgery. His wor...

Pioneer Historical Cardiothoracic Surgery Heart Lung Machine

9.8 Brilliant

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Gazi Yasargil

Gazi Yasargil is a Turkish-born Swiss neurosurgeon whose work helped establish microneurosurgery as a modern surgical di...

Pioneer Neurosurgery Aneurysm Microsurgery

9.8 Brilliant

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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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René Favaloro

Rene Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon known for advancing coronary artery bypass surgery at the Cleveland Clini...

Pioneer Cardiac Argentinian Bypass

9.6 Brilliant

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August Bier

August Bier was a German surgeon who introduced spinal anesthesia into clinical surgery in 1898 by injecting a local ane...

German Pioneer Early 20TH Century Anesthesia

8.8 Great

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Ernst Sauerbruch

German surgeon who built a negative-pressure chamber in 1904 to allow chest surgery without lung collapse, an innovation...

German Pioneer Early 20TH Century Chest

8.6 Great

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William Ernest Miles

William Ernest Miles was a British surgeon whose work significantly influenced the surgical treatment of rectal cancer....

Pioneer British Rectal Cancer Colorectal

8.2 Great

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Ian Taylor

Ian Taylor is an Australian plastic and reconstructive surgeon whose research helped define how arteries supply three-di...

Australian Pioneer Plastic Microsurgery

8.2 Great

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Fedor Krause

Fedor Krause was a German surgeon, born in 1857 and deceased in 1937, who became an important figure in the early develo...

German Pioneer Early 20TH Century Brain

8.1 Great

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Elliott Cutler

Elliott Cutler was an American surgeon associated with Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1923, he performed an ea...

American Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century

8.0 Great

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Henry Souttar

Henry Souttar was a British surgeon who performed an early operation for mitral stenosis at the London Hospital in 1925....

Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century British

7.9 Good

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Ernest Hey Groves

Ernest William Hey Groves was a British surgeon whose work contributed to the development of modern orthopedic surgery d...

Orthopedic Pioneer Early 20TH Century British

7.8 Good

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Victor Bonney

Victor Bonney was a British gynecological surgeon known for advancing conservative operations on the uterus during the e...

Pioneer Early 20TH Century British Gynecological

7.7 Good

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Ernest Sachs

Ernest Sachs was an American neurosurgeon who contributed to the establishment of neurosurgery as an independent surgica...

American Pioneer Early 20TH Century Brain

7.6 Good

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Laurence O'Shaughnessy

Laurence O'Shaughnessy was a British surgeon whose experimental work explored ways to improve the blood supply to heart...

Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century British

7.6 Good

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Georg Clemens Perthes

Georg Clemens Perthes was a German surgeon whose name is associated with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, a childhood disorde...

German Orthopedic Pioneer Hip

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

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Pierre Fredet

Pierre Fredet was a French surgeon associated with an early operative treatment for infantile hypertrophic pyloric steno...

French Pioneer Early 20TH Century Pediatric

7.5 Good

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Henri Mondor

Henri Mondor was a French surgeon and medical writer who lived from 1885 to 1962. He described the condition now called...

French General Pioneer Early 20TH Century

7.4 Good