Tag: Werner Forssmann
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Research opportunities for medical students and residents
Edward Tabor Washington, DC, United States Portrait of W. T. O Forssmann from an unknown French newspaper. Wellcome Collection. (CC BY 4.0) Medical residents who engage in scientific research obtain numerous advantages that may enhance their careers. They acquire analytical skills, refine their critical thinking, and may develop better future training opportunities. Unfortunately, scientific…
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Nobel Laureate Surgeons
Jayant Radhakrishnan Darien, Illinois, United States Mohammad Ezzi Jizan, Saudi Arabia Originally published in the World Journal of Surgery and Surgical Research 2020; 3: 1206 under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Republished with author permission. Introduction The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to 219 scientists in the last 119…
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Harold James Charles “Jeremy” Swan: The man behind the “sailing catheter”
Jimmy PhamMichigan, United States “Pressures in the right side of the heart and pulmonary capillary wedge can be obtained by cardiac catheterization without the aid of fluoroscopy . . . The frequency of premature beats was minimal, and no other arrhythmias occurred.”– N Engl J Med, 19701 With these descriptions, a new balloon-tipped catheter was…