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Heroes of Medicine and Science

Michael Shermer - professional skeptic; we need a lot more of these!
Sister Marie Celeste - Galileo's daughter
Charles Norris ~ chief medical examiner of the City of New York during the 1920s
Alexander von Humboldt - 18th century polymath and founder of the sicences of geology and ecology
Joseph Priestly - 18th century polymath who discovered OXYGEN!!
Catherine II, the Great, of Russia - received smallpox vaccine in 1773
Walter Reed - public health physician
Benjamin Spock - pediatrician and child health advocate
Florence Nightingale - public health nurse
Joseph Lister - public health physician
Louis Pasteur - microbiologist and germ theorist
Clara Barton - nurse and founder of the Red Cross
Albert Scweitzer - physician and humanitarian
Sister Ignacia - addiction nurse
Robert Walter - physician and mentor to SPS
Maxine Van Zandt - nurse extraordinaire
Benjamin Rush - physician and patriot
Michael Crichton - physician and writer
Ignaz Semmelweis - physician and innovative surgeon
John Snow - public health physician
Hippocrates - the "father" of medicine and author of the Oath
Jonas Salk - physician
Edward Jenner - public health physician
Elizabeth Blackwell - first woman licensed as a physician in the U.S.
Alexander Fleming - physician researcher & microbiologist
M.N. Smith-Peterson - physician and inventor of the artificial joint
Laveran & Ross - physicians who discovered the protist that causes malaria
Samuel Moline- head & neck surgeon and human being extraordinaire
James Lind - Romantic era physician and scientist
John Jeffries - Age of Wonder physician and balloonist
Wilhelm Roentgen - the "father" of biotech
John Udall - radiologist with a heart of gold
Ibn Sina - Islamic "Prince of Physicians" who helped preserve and expand on Greek medical science during the so-called Dark Ages of Western Europe; known in the West as Avicenna
Galen of Pergamum - "the most renowned medical writer in history"
Nicolaus Copernicus - physician and astronomer revolutionaire
Maimonides - medieval Jewish physician who wrote the first treatise on mind-body medicine
Mungo Park - Romantic era country doctor and African explorer
Marie Curie - discoverer of radium, the first element to be used in radiation therapy
Leonard Skeggs - inventor of the autoanalyzer
Thomas Beddoes - Romantic era physician who founded a free clinic and began the study medicine as a science
Humphry Davy - father of scientific literacy
William Lawrence -radical Enlightenment physician
Edith Cavell - British nurse and humanitarian
Fred Sopper - public health physician

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

When it's good to be a bad-ass!

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