Articles of category "Surgeons"

They are the original "masters" of the scalpel: those select few surgeons that brought surgery out of the ice-age and into the mainstream. Medicine as a science with its extremely important practical application has considerably evolved in the past 50 years. Surgery, as its most important branch, has undergone a number of changes and inventions. Thanks to surgeon creators the most important operations, saving life for thousands of people, are possible now. The names of Svyatoslav Fyodorov and John Heysham Gibbon are known both in medical circles and with public at large.

According to the U.S. Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education neurosurgery is defined as "the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention". Among the prominent neurosurgeons we may single out Lars Leksell and Gazi Yasargil. These surgeons contributed much to the development of Neurosurgery.