List of surgeons
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Below follows a list of famous surgeons and cardiologists:
- David Hayes Agnew
- Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation
- Norman Bethune (1890-1939), battlefield surgery.
- Theodor Billroth, stomach resection
- John Ronald Brown (1922- ). A notorious incompetent, convicted of second-degree murder after the death of a patient.
- Ben Carson
- Victor Chang
- William Cheselden
- Moshe Gueron best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting.
- Realdo Colombo (c. 1516-1559)
- Abraham Colles (1773-1843)
- Denton Cooley
- Astley Cooper
- John Green Crosse, MD, FRCS, FRS (1790 to 1850), Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
- Harvey Cushing, neurosurgery
- Michael E. DeBakey, cardiac surgery
- William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
- Clinton Thomas Dent, (1850-1912)
- Evenor (3rd century BC)
- Walter Freeman ,lobotomy
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927-2000), creator of radial keratotomy
- John Heysham Gibbon (1903-1973), first open heart surgery
- Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgery
- Sir Victor Horsley, neurosurgery
- John Hunter, first aneurysm operation
- Gavril Ilizarov a Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
- William Jardine
- Wilbert Keon
- Gerhard Küntscher
- Sir William Lawrence (biologist)
- Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
- William Macewen, general surgery and neurosurgery
- Walter Karl Koch
- Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
- Robert Liston
- Joseph Pancoast, 19th century American surgeon
- Norman Bethune - Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
- Hiram Polk
- Lall Sawh, C.M.T., F.R.C.S.(Edin.). Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.
- Sushruta
- Robert B. Salter, orthopedic surgery
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch, thoracic surgery
- George H. Tichenor
- Sid Watkins, neurosurgeon and former Formula One chief medic
- Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.
- Magdi Yacoub, heart and lung transplants
- Gazi Yaşargil, founder of micro-neurosurgery
- Robert M. Zollinger
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- History of Surgeons on surgeons.org.uk
