Best Gastrointestinal
Mark M. Ravitch was an American surgeon whose work encompassed pediatric, thoracic, and gastrointestinal surgery. After studying surgical stapling instruments developed in the Soviet Union, he helped introduce and adapt mechanical stapling techniques in the United States during the mid-20th century....
Owen H. Wangensteen was an American surgeon and longtime chair of surgery at the University of Minnesota. He developed the Wangensteen suction apparatus, which used gastrointestinal decompression to manage intestinal obstruction and reduced the immediate need for hazardous emergency operations. He a...
Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan, was a British abdominal surgeon whose career spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He became particularly associated with operations involving the stomach, duodenum, and biliary system, and wrote influential works on surgical diagnosis and...
