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Theodor Kocher (1841–1917) — thyroid surgery; first surgeon to win the Nobel Prize. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781–1826) — inventor of the stethoscope. Janet Lane-Claypon (1877–1967) — pioneer of epidemiology. Thomas Linacre (1460–1524) — founder of Royal College of Physicians.
American parasitologists (1 C, 35 P) American pathologists (4 C, 273 P) American pediatricians (9 C, 363 P) American primary care physicians (2 C, 102 P) American psychiatrists (8 C, 752 P) American public health doctors (7 C, 264 P) American pulmonologists (1 C, 49 P)
Atul Gawande. Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the ...
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [ 1] Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United ...
Physician, author. Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. While serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, he became known for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities ...
U.S. physicians per 10,000 people, 1850-2009. Physicians are an important part of health care in the United States. The vast majority of physicians in the US have a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree, though some have a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), or Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). The American College of Physicians, uses ...
Marie Equi (1872–1952) was an American doctor and activist for women's access to birth control and abortion. [94] Fannie Almara Quain (1874–1950) was the first woman born in North Dakota to earn a doctor of medicine degree. [95] Karola Maier Milobar (born 1876) became the first female physician to practice in Croatia in 1906. [92]
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (born Rebecca Davis, February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. [ a] Crumpler was also one of the first female physician ...