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Dr Phoebe Chapple, Australian surgeon who served in WW1, first female doc awarded Military Medal, for treating injured during enemy air raid
Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD in US, founder of New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children and Women's Medical College
Another NASA spinoff application for surgery: using heat pipe technology to make neurosurgery safer.
https://t.co/ZywMcLcKLf
@VerranDeborah here is the link to the podcast!
#surgtweeting
https://t.co/Eu47wzdI2D
The NeuroArm, a surgical robotic arm, able to work in an MRI, one of the surgical spinoffs from space technology.
https://t.co/U2yqwuyDBP
Vivien Thomas watches over Dr. Alfred Blalock's shoulder as he performs a Blalock-Taussig shunt to treat Tetralogy of Fallot
OTD, Dec 3, 1967, S. African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed 1st human to human heart transplant (thanks @DrJAVazquez for the tip)
Latest podcast available now, telling the story of Dr. Alfred Blalock and his lab assistant Vivien Thomas, and their work on blue babies!
On March 30th, 1981, Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt. Dr. Benjamin Aaron operated on him, saving the president's life.
January 18, 1803, Giovanni Aldini demonstrated "galvanism" on the recently hanged murderer George Forster at the notorious Newgate prison