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unusual facts about surgeons



Aortic dissection

Surgery for aortic dissection was first introduced and developed by Michael E. DeBakey, Denton Cooley and Oscar Creech, cardiac surgeons associated with the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas in 1954.

Avi Wallerstein

Wallerstein is one of 14 surgeons in North America with the designation to teach LASIK by the developers of the first LASIK microkeratome (Chiron), and one of the first surgeons in North America to use Bausch & Lomb's Technolas 217 laser and Hansatome Keratome.

Bone conduction

At the Chalmers University of Technology in December 2012, surgeons performed an inaugural operation as part of a clinical study that involves a new bone-conduction hearing implant.

Breast Men

(In reality, they were developed by Texas-based plastic surgeons Drs. Frank Gerow and Thomas Cronin).

C. Walton Lillehei

A dedicated educator, Lillehei trained more than 150 cardiac surgeons from 40 nations, including Norman Shumway and Christiaan Barnard, who formed half of the quartet which pioneered heart transplantation (the others being Richard Lower and Adrian Kantrowitz).

Canadian Organ Replacement Registry

The Canadian Organ Replacement Registry CORR is a health organisation was started by Canadian nephrologists and kidney transplant surgeons in 1985 in order to develop the care of patients with renal failure.

Catholic Medical Center

The orthopedic surgeons now have access to the new O-ARM Imaging System, a high definition CT scan that provides real-time three dimensional images during spine surgery.

Christison

Robert Christison FRSE FRCSE FRCPE (1797–1882), a Scottish toxicologist and physician, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

David Newsome

A native of North Carolina, Newsome earned a B.A. from Duke University and an M.D. from The College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Don E. Detmer

Don Detmer is a former trustee of the Nuffield Trust, a member of the Institute of Medicine as well as a lifetime Associate of the US National Academies, a fellow of AAAS, and the American Colleges of Medical Informatics, Sports Medicine, and Surgeons.

Dr. Fredric Brandt

He is a board certified member of the American Board of Dermatology, and holds membership in numerous prestigious organizations such as the International Society for Dermatologic Surgery, International Society of Cosmetic Laser Surgeons, American Medical Association, American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, Dermatology Foundation Leaders Society, Florida Medical Association, among others.

Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya

Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya is one of the eight faculties of University of Peradeniya and the only institution that trains dental surgeons in Sri Lanka.

George Whyte-Watson

He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1936 and was appointed consultant surgeon to St Luke's Hospital and Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1946.

Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test

It is currently used as the selection criteria for all graduate-entry programmes in Ireland (University College Dublin, University of Limerick, University College Cork, and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland).

Hal B. Jennings

He was accepted for further plastic surgery training at the Barnes Hospital of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and began two years training with the Blair Brown Group of Surgeons on July 1, 1949.

Health care in France

Jean de Kervasdoué, a health economist, believes that French medicine is of great quality and is "the only credible alternative to the Americanization of world medicine." According to Kervasdoué, France's surgeons, clinicians, psychiatrists, and its emergency care system (SAMU) are an example for the world.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Two years later, Osborn took a special course of study in anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bellevue Medical School of New York under Dr. William H. Welch, and subsequently studied embryology under Thomas Huxley as well as Francis Maitland Balfour at Cambridge University, England.

History of rhinoplasty

Dr. von Gräfe’s protégé, the medical and surgical polymath Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1794–1847), who was among the first surgeons to anaesthetize the patient before performing the nose surgery, published Die Operative Chirurgie (Operative Surgery, 1845), which became a foundational medical and plastic surgical text.

History of veterinary medicine in Pennsylvania

That honor has been singularly given to the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, chartered in 1857 at New York University.

Hospital

English physician Thomas Percival (1740-1804) wrote a comprehensive system of medical conduct, 'Medical Ethics, or a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons (1803) that set the standard for many textbooks.

James A. Nicholas

Nicholas was among the best-known orthopedic surgeons in the United States as a physician for the New York Jets, the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers.

John Howard Kyan

The timber used in building the Oxford and Cambridge Club, British Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, Westminster Bridewell, the new roof of the Temple Church, and the Ramsgate harbour works was also prepared by Kyan's process.

Joseph Henry Green

In 1824 he became professor of anatomy at the College of Surgeons, delivering four annual courses of twelve lectures on comparative anatomy, using the textbook of Carl Gustav Carus.

Kenelm Hutchinson Digby

Digby was educated at Quernmore School, Bromley, and undertook his medical studies at Guy's Hospital, London, where he was a prize-winning student (holding the Michael Harris, Hilton and Beaney Prizes) and where he gained his MB, BS in 1907 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910.

Lay Carmelites

Thus the master-bakers, innkeepers and pastry-cooks at Nîmes, the barbers and surgeons of the same town, who were also connected with the Dominicans, the goldsmiths at Avignon.

Lizars

John Lizars (c.1787-1860), Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons,

Lyall Stuart Scott

Scott served on the editorial committee of the British Journal of Urology, on the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and on the urology committee of the Royal Society of Medicine.

MRCVS

These are members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, (RCVS), who have undertaken specialist and advanced study and presented their thesis to the RCVS and passed an examination to be awarded the Diploma of Fellowship.

Any veterinary surgeon wishing to practice veterinary surgery in the United Kingdom must be a properly registered member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).

Some veterinary surgeons may have the initials FRCVS after their name - this indicates that they have been awarded a Fellowship by the RCVS.

Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery

Senior leadership from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) organized a working group of surgeons and gastroenterologists in 2006 to develop standards for the practice of this emerging technique.

Nerina Shute

Visiting her mother in Rottingdean, Sussex, she met two women: “Andy” Sharpe and, somewhat older, Helen Mayo, respectively a gynaecologist and one of the first female dental surgeons.

Norman Blacklock

He rejoined the Royal Navy in 1958 to help fill a shortage of surgeons, and served at Navy hospitals in Chatham, Plymouth, Malta and Haslar in Gosport.

Rat Park

Writer Lauren Slater, Alexander's daughter-in-law, interviewed psychiatrist Herbert Kleber, director of the substance-abuse division of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and a former U.S. deputy drug czar, on what was wrong with Rat Park.

Robert Clements

Robert George Clements (1880–1947), physician and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

Robert Kotler

As a spokesperson for cosmetic surgeons, he regularly appears on radio and television, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News; on such shows as Oprah, Deborah Norville Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Your World with Neil Cavuto, EXTRA, Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.

Roberto Reyes Barreiro

On May 1, 1914, during the invasion of Veracruz by the American Frank Friday Fletcher, Reyes Barreiro was among the surgeons attending to the noted Mexican hero José Azueta.

Rosetrees Trust

Many researchers and surgeons see practical potential benefits for example Rosetrees supports the Royal College of Surgeons fellowships where researchers test their ideas.

Storm Bugs

Snatch Tapes was part of the then burgeoning cassette culture scene and also released tapes by David Jackman (later of Organum), and Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey as well as tracks by the Lemon Kittens, Alien Brains, Cultural Amnesia and the Beach Surgeons (led by a young Graham Massey, later of 808 State).

Suture

Surgical suture, a stitch used by doctors and surgeons to hold tissue together

Terence English

He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons 1989-92, Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1993–2000.

Thomas J. Carew

In 1974, with the Kandel group, he moved to Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he became a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry.

Violence against academics in post-invasion Iraq

He was assassinated on August 31, 2004, just three months after his participation in an international conference of shoulder and elbow surgeons in Washington, D.C. Dr Wissam S. al-Hashimi, a geologist born in Baghdad, was not only elected president of the Geological Society of Iraq in 2001, but he was also president of the Union of Arab Geologists and from 1996 to 2002 he was vice president of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

Voergaard Castle

Chenu-Lafitte was the daughter of Jules-Émile Péan, one of the great French surgeons of the 19th century, and owned an extensive art collection which originated both from her father and deceased husband.

Walter G. Alexander

He graduated in 1899 and then attended the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons (now Tufts University School of Medicine), receiving his M.D. in 1903.

Weaveworld

The attempt failed when he brought forth 'the Surgeons' (although it is never confirmed, it is heavily implied that these were the Cenobites from Barker's earlier work 'The Hellbound Heart' and its subsequent film adaptation 'Hellraiser')who proceeded to fillet him.

Wirginia Maixner

She remained in the program and became the first person to be granted maternity leave by the Australian Royal College of Surgeons.


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