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Abraham Jacobi
Abraham Jacobi (1830–1919) was a German-born American physician, a political refugee of 1848, known as the father of American pediatrics for founding its first chair, clinic, and societies.
Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese, born 1955 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is an American physician and professor at Stanford known for the bestseller Cutting for Stone and for advocating the physical examination.
Anandi Gopal Joshi (आनंदीबाई गोपाळराव जोशी)
Anandi Gopal Joshi (आनंदीबाई गोपाळराव जोशी, 1865–1887), also Anandibai Joshee, first Indian woman to earn a Western medicine MD (Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1886); died of tuberculosis before practicing.
Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil, American Harvard-trained physician, author, and founder of the Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine; coined "integrative medicine," wrote Spontaneous Healing and Healthy Aging, advocates an anti-inflammatory diet, and is criticized for rejecting randomized-trial evidence standards.
Axel Munthe
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) was a Swedish physician and psychiatrist who practiced in Paris, Rome, and Capri and wrote the bestselling 1929 memoir The Story of San Michele.
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), American physician, Declaration of Independence signer, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania; father of American psychiatry, notorious for depletion therapy (calomel, jalap, bloodletting) in the 1793 yellow fever epidemic.
Bernard Lewinsky
Bernard Salomon Lewinsky, Los Angeles radiation oncologist and father of Monica Lewinsky; developed the first freestanding radiation therapy clinics in Los Angeles and co-founded the American Brachytherapy Society's predecessor.
Bidhan Chandra Roy (বিধান চন্দ্র রায়)
Bidhan Chandra Roy (বিধান চন্দ্র রায়) was an Indian physician, educator, and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1948 until his death in 1962.
Carl Kupfer
Carl Kupfer (1928–2011) was an American ophthalmologist and the first director of the National Eye Institute, serving from 1970 to 2000 as its budget grew from $24 million to over $450 million.
Charles C. Sprague
Charles C. Sprague, also known as Charles Cameron Sprague, was an American hematologist and the first President of UT Southwestern Medical Center, serving from 1972 to 1986.
Chris van Tulleken
Chris van Tulleken is a British infectious diseases doctor, University College London academic, and BBC science presenter who co-hosts Operation Ouch! with his twin brother Xand and wrote Ultra-Processed People.
Christian Jessen
Christian Spencer Jessen, British doctor and TV presenter known for Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies and Supersize vs Superskinny; sexual health physician ordered in 2021 to pay Arlene Foster £125,000 libel damages over a tweet.
Conrad Murray
Conrad Murray, Grenadian-born former cardiologist and Michael Jackson's personal physician on the This Is It tour; convicted of involuntary manslaughter November 7, 2011 for administering propofol as a sleep aid; served two years of a four-year sentence, released 2013.
Deborah E. Powell
Deborah E. Powell, also known as Deborah Elizabeth Powell, was an American academic pathologist who served as Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School from 2002 to 2009.
Doctor Mike (Михаил Варшавский)
Doctor Mike, Mikhail Varshavski (Михаил Варшавский), is a Russian-born American board-certified family medicine physician and the most-followed doctor on social media, with over 30 million followers, a YouTube channel launched in 2017, and The Checkup podcast.
Douglas T. Prehn
Douglas T. Prehn, also known as Douglas Theodore Prehn, was an American United States Navy urologist who described Prehn's sign, used to distinguish testicular torsion from epididymitis.
Dr. Warfvinge
Dr. Warfvinge (Frans Wilhelm Warfvinge, 1834–1908) was a Swedish physician who directed Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm and urged pernicious anemia patients to eat large quantities of meat.
Drew Pinsky
Drew Pinsky, known publicly as Dr. Drew, is an American physician board-certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine who hosted the nationally syndicated radio show Loveline for 32 years and the VH1 series Celebrity Rehab.
Dwight L. Wilbur
Dwight Locke Wilbur (1903–1997) was an American gastroenterologist in San Francisco and Stanford clinical professor who, as American Medical Association president from 1968 to 1969, helped ease its opposition to Medicare.
Ferdinand Monoyer
Ferdinand Monoyer (1836–1912), French ophthalmologist of Strasbourg, Nancy, and Lyon; creator of the Monoyer eye chart, the 1875 decimal visual acuity notation, and the diopter unit, with his name hidden in the chart rows.
Frank A. Riddick Jr
Frank Adams Riddick Jr. (1931–2014) was an American endocrinologist and physician-executive who led the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans as CEO from 1975 to 1992.
Friedrich Ritter (physician)
Friedrich Ritter (1886–1934), German physician and psychosomatic specialist from Berlin, settled Floreana in the Galápagos with Dore Strauch in 1929; his Nietzschean utopia ended in the unsolved 1934 Galápagos Affair and his death, presumably botulism.
George Tiller
George Tiller (1941-2009), Wichita, Kansas physician and medical director of Women's Health Care Services, one of few US providers of late-term abortions; survived a 1986 clinic bombing and 1993 shooting, was acquitted in 2009, then murdered by Scott Roeder.
Howard Krein
Howard Krein is an American otolaryngologist and facial plastic surgeon, Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, director of the Herbert Kean Center for Facial Aesthetics, chief medical officer of StartUp Health, and son-in-law of Joe Biden through his marriage to Ashley Biden.
James G. Nuckolls
James G. Nuckolls, known as James Garland Nuckolls, was an American general internist from Galax, Virginia, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1992.
John Radcliffe (physician, born 1650)
John Radcliffe (baptized 1650, died 1714), English physician and royal doctor to William III, Mary II, and Queen Anne, whose £140,000 estate endowed Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, Observatory, and Infirmary.
Joseph Maroon
Joseph Maroon, born in 1940, is an American neurosurgeon and clinical professor at the University of Pittsburgh who was the Pittsburgh Steelers' team neurosurgeon for more than 40 years.
Keith Peters (physician)
Sir (David) Keith Peters, born 1938, is a Welsh clinical immunologist who was Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge from 1987 to 2005 and pioneered plasma exchange.
Lionel Logue
Lionel Logue (1880-1953), Australian speech therapist and elocutionist at 146 Harley Street who treated King George VI's stammer from 1926, co-founded the British Society of Speech Therapists, and inspired The King's Speech.
Lloyd H. Smith Jr.
Lloyd H. Smith Jr., also known as Lloyd Hollingsworth Smith Jr., was an American physician-scientist who led UCSF's Department of Medicine from 1964 and studied the biochemical basis of genetic disease.