Healthcare Heroes Flashcards by Emaan Ansari

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Edward Jenner

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small pox vaccine

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Hippocrates

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“Father of Modern Medicine”

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Joseph Murray

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first successful human kidney transplant

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Fredrick Hopkins

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“vitamins are essential for good health”

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Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier

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HIV treatment

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William Harvey

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circulatory system

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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

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x-ray

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Watson and Crick

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DNA

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Fredrick Banting

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insulin

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Louis Pasteur

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Germ Theory

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Alexander Flemming

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penicillin

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Anton van Loewenhoek

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first microscope

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James Lind

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“citrus fruits prevent scurvy”

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Sir Humphry Davy and Horace Wells

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nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

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William Morton

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ether as an anesthetic

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Rene Lannec

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stethoscope

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James Blundell

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first successful blood transfusion

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Joseph Lister

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anesthetic (child bed fever)

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Karl Landsteiner

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discovery of blood antibodies

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Michael Debakey

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pioneered procedures in the field of cardiovascular defects

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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first female physician

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Florence Nightingale

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founder of modern nursing

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Clara Barton

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founder of the Red Cross

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Robert Jarvik

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first successful permanent artificial heart

Godfrey Hounsfield

CT scanner

Ignaz Semmelweis

clinical hand washing standards

Marie Curie

discovery of radium and polonium

Gerty Cori

first woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine

Henry Judah Heimlich

life saving choking (Heimlich) maneuver

William Kouwenhoven

CPR / defibrillation