Bertrand Bell Residency reformer
“A bus driver can’t do it. A pilot cannot do it. So why should a neophyte doctor do it?”
From This is True for 9 October 2016
medicine
Doctors and medical researchers
Abdul Sattar Edhi Humanitarian
He had no funding, and simply led by example: the Edhi Foundation grew to be a huge public service organization.
From This is True for 10 July 2016
Norman McSwain Pre-hospital trauma pioneer
Dr. McSwain brought paramedics to New Orleans, and then trained combat medics, too.
From This is True for 2 August 2015
Stanley Zydlo EMS pioneer
Dr. Zydlo brought paramedics to more rural areas of the U.S., and then got saved by one of them.
From This is True for 7 June 2015
Elisabeth Bing Lamaze advocate
She is now known as “the mother of Lamaze.”
From This is True for 17 May 2015
Martin Reiser Cop shrink
Reiser was the first full-time staff psychologist for any police department in the country.
From This is True for 19 April 2015
John D. Arras Medical philosopher
Arras was a medical philosopher, probing questions that medicine had ignored for generations.
From This is True for 15 March 2015
L. Stephen Coles Supercentenarian researcher
Dr. Coles studied supercentenarians to uncover their secrets.
From This is True for 7 December 2014
Denham Harman The radical
Harman brought “world-class science to what was once a backwater of biology.”
From This is True for 30 November 2014
Morris Collen Medical informatics founder
The annual Award of Excellence for outstanding contributions to the field is named the Morris F. Collen Medal.
From This is True for 28 September 2014