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
medicine
Doctors, surgeons, and other medical practitioners. Researchers are usually under research.
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
Richard J. Bing Cardiologist
“One of the great cardiologists of our time.”
From This is True for 14 November 2010
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