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Courtney Howard — Yellowknife-based ER physician and one-time leadership candidate, Green Party of Canada; Samuel Gridley Howe — abolitionist; Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (1810–1889) — President of the Connecticut State Medical Society; director of the Retreat for the Insane; Varsha Jain — UK Space doctor/researcher for women's health
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". [2]
Name Birth Death Nationality Notes Reference(s) Maude Abbott: 1869: 1940: Canada [1] Robert Adams: 1791: 1875: Ireland [2] Anthony Adducci: 1937: 2006: United States: Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. [3] Raymond Perry Ahlquist: 1914: 1983: United States [4] John Ainsworth: 1957 – British: Treating ...
Christopher Daniel Duntsch (born April 3, 1971) [1] is a former American neurosurgeon who has been nicknamed Dr. Death [2] for 33 incidents of gross neurosurgical malpractice while working at hospitals in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which maimed 31 patients and caused 2 deaths. [3]
Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, [1] October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and physician who is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues in the United States and Zimbabwe, although he admitted to causing only four deaths.
Discover medical schools that trained influential physicians.While many people hope to become physicians, only a minority of candidates are accepted into U. 16 Medical Schools That Trained Famous ...
Efren Saldivar — Murdered 60+ people while working in Brownsville, Texas as a respiratory therapist. Ronald G. Beckett — Famous for advancing science in Mummy Science . Mary Ann Vecchio — Subject of a Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.