Healthcare Heroes Flashcards by Neha Vivek

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Edward Jenner

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small pox vaccine

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Hippocrates

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Hippocratic oath

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Joseph Murray

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first kidney transplant

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Frederick Hopkins

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vitamins are necessary for good health

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Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier

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HIV

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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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Frederick Banting

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insulin

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Louis Pasteur

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Germ theory

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Alexander Fleming

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penicillin

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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microscope

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James Lind

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citrus fruit to prevent scurry

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Sir Humphry Davy and Horace Wells

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nitrous oxide as anesthesia

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William Morton

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ether as an anesthetic

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Rene Laennec

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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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antiseptic/ asepsis

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Karl Landsteiner

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discovery of blood antibodies

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Michael Debakey

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pioneering 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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created 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

handwashing childbed fever

Marie Curie

discovery of radium and polonium

Gerty Cori

first women to win Nobel Prize in medicine

Henry Judah Heimlich

created lifesaving choking maneuver

William Kouwenhoven

CPR/ defibrillation