swap_horiz Hugh Owen Thomas Alternatives

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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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Gavriil Ilizarov

Gavriil Ilizarov was a Soviet orthopedic surgeon associated with Kurgan in western Siberia. In the 1950s he developed a...

Orthopedic Pioneer Soviet External Fixator

9.2 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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Roy Calne

Roy Calne was a British surgeon and researcher whose work helped establish clinical organ transplantation. Based at Camb...

Pioneer British Immunosuppression Transplant

9.1 Excellent

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Victor Horsley

Victor Horsley was a prominent British surgeon whose work significantly advanced the field of neurosurgery. He is noted...

Pioneer Historical British Neurosurgery

9.0 Excellent

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Donald Ross

Donald Ross (1922-2014) was a South African-born British cardiac surgeon known for innovations in heart-valve surgery. I...

Pioneer Cardiac British Valve

8.8 Great

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John Insall

John N. Insall (1930-2000) was a British-born orthopedic surgeon whose career was largely based in the United States. He...

Orthopedic Pioneer Replacement British American

8.7 Great

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Robert Jones

Sir Robert Jones was a Welsh orthopedic surgeon whose work helped establish orthopedics as a distinct surgical specialty...

Orthopedic Pioneer British Rehabilitation

8.7 Great

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Howard Kelly

Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943) was an American gynecologist and one of the four founding professors of the Johns Hopkin...

American 19TH Century Pioneer Johns Hopkins

8.7 Great

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Emile Letournel

Emile Letournel was a French orthopedic surgeon whose work established a systematic approach to fractures of the acetabu...

French Orthopedic Pioneer Fracture

8.7 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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Russell Brock

Russell Brock, later Baron Brock of Wimbledon, was a British surgeon who contributed to the development of modern cardia...

Pioneer Cardiac British Pulmonary

8.5 Great

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Kenneth McKee

Kenneth McKee was a British orthopedic surgeon associated with the development of early total hip replacement. Working w...

Orthopedic Pioneer British Hip Replacement

7.8 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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Frederick Treves

Sir Frederick Treves was a British surgeon known for his work in abdominal surgery and for two prominent associations in...

19TH Century General Pioneer British

7.7 Good

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Philip Wiles

Philip Wiles was a British orthopedic surgeon associated with the Middlesex Hospital in London. In 1938 he performed an...

Orthopedic Pioneer British Arthroplasty

7.7 Good

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William Arbuthnot Lane

William Arbuthnot Lane was a British surgeon who worked across orthopedic and abdominal surgery. In the late nineteenth...

Orthopedic Plating Pioneer British

7.6 Good

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Robert Barnes

Robert Barnes was a nineteenth-century British physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. He wrote and taught...

19TH Century Pioneer British Obstetrics

7.2 Good

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Ian Learmonth

British orthopedic surgeon known for contributions to hip and knee replacement surgery and leadership roles in the Briti...

Orthopedic Pioneer Hip British

7.1 Good

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Robert Roaf

Robert Roaf was a British orthopedic surgeon whose work concentrated on spinal disorders, scoliosis, and the mechanics o...

Orthopedic Pioneer British Spine

7.0 Good