The 25 Most Influential Physicians in the Past Century

The announcement of congenital cardiac malformation by Helen Brooke Taussig in 1947 helped establish the field of pediatric cardiology. Other highlights of Dr. Taussig's excellent care include promoting hospice care and palliative care, prohibiting thalidomide, advocating the use of animals in medical research, and influential work for legalizing abortion.

Dr. Taussig studied at Harvard Medical School and Boston University, and later acquired a medical degree at Johns Hopkins University, where she is the majority of her career.

Dr. Taussig, together with Drs Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, created a Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt at birth to treat children with Fallot tetralogy.

Dr. Taussig has won numerous international awards and honors including the Presidential Medal, the Alberta Award, the French Honor Order. She was elected president of the National Academy of Sciences and became the first female principal of the American Society of Cardiology in 1960. [1]

Imhotep is an ancient Egyptian architect, a doctor, an astronomer, a pastor, a politician, a scribe in the 27th century BC. As we know, he is one of the most influential people in the rise of Egyptian civilization and is one of the oldest and greatest scholars in human history. He later became a god of medicine and wisdom. Now, this is a high level flattery. Imhotep is an influential person, but the man who lived long ago - has returned to the early stages of Egyptian civilization. Therefore, we do not know that there are many specific lives in him. He appeared as an pastor and minister of Josel in ancient records. Josel was the first Pharaoh of Egypt's third dynasty and was recalled by sponsoring a large architectural project in his kingdom. Real urban growth, agriculture becomes more complicated, buildings advance more, and all these core is Imhotep

Imhotep was an Egyptian pastor, politician, scribe, doctor and architect in the 27th century BC. He is best known as the founder of the Third Dynasty, Minister of Josel. In this position, Imhotep has become one of the first great doctors in history to establish a treatment system based on identifying symptoms and reacting with tested drugs. As an architect, Imhotep remembered as a designer of Djoser Pyramid, the first pyramid in Egyptian history. Finally, Imhotep was deified by its contribution. He left the influence and permanent legacy of the powerful stone structure he built.

In the last part of this series of four parts, we examined the achievements of individuals who were chosen as top 10 of the most influential doctors in history, and clarified their contribution to medical practice. Discover the background and how they changed the society we know. Although not a doctor, French scientist Lewis Pasteur has great influence on medicine such as molecular asymmetry theory, pasteurization, fermentation process, and development of vaccine against bird cholera, rabies, anthrax. Exclude from this list