Richard J. Bing Cardiologist
“One of the great cardiologists of our time.”
From This is True for 14 November 2010
medicine
Doctors and medical researchers
Fred Plum The very conscious
Plum researched consciousness — and unconsciousness — choosing the career as a teen.
From This is True for 13 June 2010
James W. Black Healthful antagonist
Black invented a new class of cardiac drug, still in wide use today.
From This is True for 21 March 2010
Walter E. Stamm Fertility savior
Dr. Stamm solved pelvic inflammatory disease.
From This is True for 20 December 2009
A. Stone Freedberg Diagnostician
Dr. Freedberg figured out what caused ulcers, but couldn’t prove it.
From This is True for 23 August 2009
Willem J. Kolff Artificial organ inventor
Kolff invented kidney dialysis.
From This is True for 8 February 2009
Florence Wald Hospice pioneer
Wald left a great job to do what no one in the U.S. had yet done: open a hospice.
From This is True for 9 November 2008
Thomas H. Weller Virus researcher
Weller and his two colleagues shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work.
From This is True for 17 August 2008
Michael E. DeBakey Greatest surgeon
He is thought by many to be “the greatest surgeon ever.”
From This is True for 13 July 2008
Edwina Froehlich Breastfeeding advocate
Froehlich led the formation of the La Leche League.
From This is True for 8 June 2008