HAPPY DOCTOR’S DAY…

One doctor makes work for another.  ~English Proverb

Imhoptep is said to be the world's first doctor, being the first doctor and founder of medicine before Christ was born.

Hippocrates earned the mantle of “Father of Medicine” as well as credit for the “Invention of Medicine”.

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. He  developed surgical procedures for organ transplants, invented new heart valves.

Subhash Mukherjee (January 16, 1931 - June 19, 1981) was a physician from Kolkata, India, who created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation.

Dr. Sudhakar Krishnamurti, andrologist, microsurgeon and sexual medicine consultant, is the first Indian doctor to practice exclusive clinical andrology, the branch of medicine and surgery that deals with disorders of the male sexual and reproductive system.

Anandi Gopal Joshi A (March 31, 1865 - February 26, 1887) was one of the two first Indian women to obtain a medical degree through training in Western medicine.

The Apgar scale is a standardized scale that is used to determine the physical status of an infant at birth. This simple, easy-to-perform test was devised in 1953 by Dr. Virginia Apgar (1909-1974), a professor of anesthesia at the New York Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Dr. Solomon A. Berson (1919-1972) and Dr. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921- ) co-invented the radioimmunoassay (RIA) in 1959. The radioimmunoassay is a method of chemically analyzing human blood and tissue and is used diagnose illness (like diabetes).

The idea of a blood bank was pioneered by Dr. Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950). Dr. Drew was an American medical doctor and surgeon who started the idea of a blood bank and a system for the long term preservation of blood plasma (he found that plasma kept longer than whole blood).

Jonas Salk (1914-1995) was a research physician who formulated a vaccine against the devastating disease polio.

X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen (1845-1923). Roentgen was a German physicist who described this new form of radiation that allowed him to photograph objects that were hidden behind opaque shields.

HAPPY DOCTOR’S DAY…