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Victor Chang
Victor Chang
Australian surgeon
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
American neurosurgeon and politician
Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta
American neurosurgeon and medical correspondent
Helen Brooke Taussig
American physician
Hua Tuo
Chinese physician and surgeon
Ernest Amory Codman
American surgeon
Pott, Sir Percivall
Sir Percivall Pott
English surgeon
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker
American physician and reformer
“America's Doctor”
Mehmet Oz
Turkish American surgeon, educator, and author
Segev, Dorry
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Fiona Wood, 2005.
Fiona Wood
Australian surgeon
Anderson Abbott
Canadian doctor and surgeon
James D. Hardy
American surgeon
DeBakey, Michael
Michael DeBakey
American surgeon
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
“The father of the Paralympic movement”
Ludwig Guttmann
English neurosurgeon
Egas Moniz
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist
Denton Cooley
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