Modern Medicine

Question 1

What advancements were made in surgery? (4)

Answer 1

1. Advancements in pain relief and infection allowed surgeons to transplant organs
2. 1967: first successful heart transplant
3. Surgeons overcame problems of rejection and could transplant organs between unrelated people as long as they matched
4. Radiation therapy was developed for cancer treatments

Question 2

Who were Crick and Watson?

Answer 2

1. 1953: Discovered the double helix

2. Doctors could now understand genetic and hereditary diseases