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The Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston is the largest medical complex in the world, comprising 21 hospitals, 8 specialty institutions, 8 academic and research institutions, 4 medical schools, 3 nursing schools, 2 pharmacy schools, and 1 dental school.
Rebecca Sealy Hospital, part of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. [1] [2] Shriner's Hospital for Children — Galveston, burn care unit [1] [2] Shriners Hospitals for Children — Houston; Texas Children's Hospital, affiliated with BCM; TIRR Memorial Hermann, affiliated with BCM and McGovern Medical School
The Texas Medical Board (TMB [1]) is the state agency mandated to regulate the practice of medicine by Doctors of Medicine (MDs) and Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DOs) in Texas. The Board consists of 12 physician members and seven public members appointed for a six-year term by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.
Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital is located inside Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center and is a member institution of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions. [4] It houses one of the nation's largest neonatal intensive care units and is one of only two Level IV NICUs in Southeast Texas. The NICU at ...
Heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey (1908–2008), a faculty member and later Chancellor Emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine, performed the first removal of a carotid artery blockage (1950); the first aorto-coronary bypass surgery (1964); the first use of a ventricular assist device to pump blood and support a diseased heart (1966); and some of the first U.S. heart transplants (1968 and 1969 ...
A world map is a map of the surface of the Earth, which may be made using any of a number of different map projections. Maps of the world are often either 'political' or 'physical'. The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the physical is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil ...
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Name used in the default map caption; image = USA Texas location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" image1 = Relief map of Texas.png An alternative map image, usually a relief map, which can be displayed via the relief or AlternativeMap parameters; top = 36.8 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 25.5 ...