Joseph E. Murray Transplant pioneer
Dr. Murray performed the first successful human organ transplant.
From This is True for 2 December 2012
medicine
Doctors and medical researchers
R. Palmer Beasley Hepatitis B foe
Beasley figured out hepatitis B. “It is eradicable.”
From This is True for 26 August 2012
Robert Ledley Cross-sectional imager
Ledley invented the CAT scanner, and brought computers to medicine.
From This is True for 29 July 2012
Peter Goodwin “Death with Dignity” activist
One of the few doctors willing to stand up in public to defend death with dignity.
From This is True for 18 March 2012
William Lamers Jr. Hospice pioneer
Dr. Lamers helped people who wanted to die at home, not in a hospital.
From This is True for 19 February 2012
David Servan-Schreiber The anti-cancer
He used his own techniques to fight back a cancer diagnosis.
From This is True for 24 July 2011
Joseph Hittelman Blacklisted doctor
Just a family practitioner medical doctor …who was branded a subversive and blacklisted.
From This is True for 17 July 2011
Frank Fenner Pox expert
Fenner chaired the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.
From This is True for 28 November 2010