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University Physicians (UP), the faculty group practice of the School of Medicine is the state's largest medical group representing more than 125 specialties. This network of providers includes more than 1,000 health care specialists and subspecialists. [21] UP providers see about 404,870 patients each year in 170 locations in 38 counties. [22]
Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital. Lloyd Tevis Miller (December 6, 1872 – March 8, 1951) was an American physician who was the first medical director of the Afro-American Hospital in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the first private hospital for blacks in the state. He was also a co-founder of the Mississippi Medical and Surgical Association.
American College of Surgeons. James D. Hardy (May 14, 1918 – February 19, 2003) was a United States surgeon who performed the world's first lung transplant into John Russell, who lived 18 days. The transplant was performed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi on June 11, 1963. [1][2][3][4]
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. [ 1 ] Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal trauma, spine diseases, sports injuries, degenerative diseases, infections, tumors, and ...
General surgeon. General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on alimentary canal and abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. General surgeons also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue ...
Vascular surgery. Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which vascular diseases involving the arteries, veins, or lymphatic vessels, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction. The specialty evolved from general and cardiovascular surgery where it refined the management of just ...
Surgeon. In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before specializing in surgery. In some countries and jurisdictions, the title of 'surgeon' is ...
Ophthalmology (/ ˌɒfθælˈmɒlədʒi /, OFF-thal-MOL-ə-jee) [1] is a clinical and surgical specialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. [2] A former term is oculism. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. [3]