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John Hunter

John Hunter was a prominent Scottish surgeon active during the 18th century. His meticulous anatomical studies and syste...

Anatomy Historical Scottish General Surgery

9.9 Brilliant

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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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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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Lars Leksell

Lars Leksell was a Swedish neurosurgeon who developed influential methods for stereotactic brain surgery. He introduced...

Pioneer Swedish Neurosurgery Gamma Knife

9.4 Excellent

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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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Andreas Grüntzig

Andreas Gruntzig was a German-born physician who worked in Switzerland and helped found modern interventional cardiology...

Swiss Pioneer Cardiac Angioplasty

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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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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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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James Syme

James Syme was a nineteenth-century Scottish surgeon and an influential teacher at the University of Edinburgh. He descr...

19TH Century General Pioneer Scottish

8.2 Great

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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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Joseph Bell

Joseph Bell was a Scottish surgeon and teacher at the University of Edinburgh who was noted for using detailed observati...

19TH Century General Pioneer Scottish

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