Month January 2020

Charles Ballance

Biography Born 30 August 1856 in Clapton, England 1881 – MBBS St. Thomas Medical School (gold medal in surgery) 1885 – FRCS Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons 1915 – Consultant surgeon to the British Army, stationed at Malta…

Carl Langenbuch

Carl Johann August Langenbuch (1846 - 1901) was a German surgeon. Pioneer in hepatobiliary surgery and performed the first cholecystectomy at the Lazarus Hospital in Berlin in July 1882

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Physician Suicide

A friend of mine killed himself recently. This is a call to arms. As a profession it’s time for us to wake up to this problem, and to act.

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Otto Sprengel

Otto Gerhard Karl Sprengel (1852 - 1915) was a German surgeon. Remembered fro his description of Sprengel deformity (1891) and appendicitis work (1906)

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Fleischner sign

Fleischner sign: prominent dilated central pulmonary artery. Enlargement can be associated with massive embolus enlarging the luminal diameter of the proximal artery in the acute setting; or pulmonary hypertension in the subacute to chronic setting