swap_horiz William Harris 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

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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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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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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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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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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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Paul Harrington

Paul Harrington was an American orthopedic surgeon known for developing spinal instrumentation to treat scoliosis. His s...

American Orthopedic Pioneer Spine

8.2 Great

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Jacqueline Perry

Jacqueline Perry was an American orthopedic surgeon and a specialist in the clinical study of human walking. At Rancho L...

American Orthopedic Pioneer Polio

8.2 Great

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Austin Moore

Austin Moore was an American orthopedic surgeon whose name is attached to the Austin Moore prosthesis, an early metal im...

American Orthopedic Pioneer Arthroplasty

8.0 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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Philip D. Wilson

American orthopedic surgeon who served as surgeon-in-chief at Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, and was a pioneer...

American Orthopedic Pioneer Hip

7.5 Good

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Frank Stinchfield

Frank E. Stinchfield was an American orthopedic surgeon associated with Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York...

American Orthopedic Pioneer Hip

7.4 Good